Saw THIS over at AW.met and was wondering if we could do something like this? It wold be nice to have this app working on MOS.

This is something you could do 10 years ago already on amigaos (with older versions of course) with geekgadgets.
There are a few X11 servers available for amigaos, geekgadgets one, amiwin (shareware) and xami.

Basically someone just needs compile native X11 sdk libraries so that upper layers such as gtk can be compiled and at last high-level applications like abiword.

Now, do we really want to run sluggish alien linux applications on a separate screen, with very little integration?

This is not as easy question as you think. My opinion is that we need more native applications, but as everybody knows, there are not much developers on this platform. :( So I think it's even better to run linux applications on a seperate X screen than reboot every time to linux wheen I need to open some Word document or do something what is not possible on MOS. :(

If you want word documents, use MS Windows.

Well, if you want to experiment with it, porting cygnix to MorphOS is trivial. Someone just must watch configure scripts running in MorphOS and that is the most boring part of it.

from the few OS4 users i know it's pretty slow actually.

They also say it's pretty usable and stable.

pretty stable is meaningless, it's stable or it's not

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And if I don't want to use Windows? Besides the point is not only have
a possibility to open word documents. The problem is that we don't
have any good word processor on Amiga and Amiga like systems.

I'm not a "Linux on Morphos" follower, but it would be good for a
temporary solution. As GK_LKA said, it's easier to run AbiWord on
second screen than switching to Linux.

I agree with Kamul and GK_LKA. I think every useful, needed App would be good to have on MorphOS. AbiWord for instance seems to offer quite a lot stuff we currently not have on any other word processor running on MOS.

As said previously, if someone really wants it badly, it's trivial to port.

You basically just have to type ./configure and make, and eventually tweak a few settings or configure scripts until it works.

There's even cygnix sources archive available on os4depot as a reference.

I have to say that it would be nice of course to be able to run linux/x11 apps on MorphOS but I think its easier to install a linux distri where you have always up-to-date compiles of the needed application.

Well, if anyone wants tp give it a shot, please do! I'd love to see a package put together with an install guide to get it working once its done too.

I tryed with old 68K X&& servers on morphos, but there's only th server working . Never could run applications. Dont know why.

It would be very curius to try this why running sofware we dont have. It should be faster than running Operating system emulations and easier than rebooting on linux for some word processing.

mos port (without ppc emul) of sheepshaver with macos9.0 and office 2001 would be the best solution

Zukow

If you are going to start talking like that then best solution is Mac ON Linux with OSX and Office 2007...


magnetic

Or for free use oo.org... it would be nice to see abiword for mos native though

MOL doesn't work in morphos window. Sheepshaver doesn't require to recompile (x11) programs like cygnix. One emulator and hundreds programs, games, etc.

Porting Sheepshaver to MorphOS just isnt feasible. I once looked into it but it is no go.

@Itix

Are you talking about problems with mos.1.4.5?
Maybe in mos2.0 it would be feasible.

MorphOS 2.0 does not make it possible. It just is not possible in a shared address space OS.

If you want a texteditor, why don't you use Pagestream? I'm using it for years and it is a very powerfull textprogram. I've to use Word on my office, but at home I prefer Pagestream altough it isn't the newest version (4.1, i'm waiting for an update for Morphos). It is way better then Word.......

regards Tom

As long as it regards only to view and read ms-word docs on MOS I recomend these online services:

https://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp online word 2 pdf converter (works with V)
http://view.samurajdata.se/ online word doc viewer works with Aweb

For viewing MS Word documents, you could also use:


Antiword (for converting to PDF/HTML)
http://aminet.net/package/text/misc/antiword

Next (great program!)
http://aminet.net/package/text/show/Next

EvenMore (also great)
http://www.evenmore.co.uk/downloads/EvenMore.readme

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About file conversion, be sure to check media-convert.com. It does amazing things, with text, database, spreadsheets, image, sound, music and video. For example, I used it to successfully convert a "FLV" video (done in Flash, coming from YouTube) into MPEG4.
It's absolutely free, and they accept files up to 150 MB!

@Itix: what prevents ShapeSheever from working on MorphOS ?

Leo.