Morphos on unnoficially supported models?
  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 152 from 2009/12/9
    From: Virginia,USA
    Is there any possibility of installing 2.4 on an ibook or powerbook g4, the ibook has a chipset supported by morphos, so I'd think so...? Please excuse my noobish questions, I own an a1220 but morphos looked appealingf for eitehr of my laptops, I'm dling it right now to see if i have any luck to boot it?
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    Powermac G4 MDD 1.5GHZ OSX.5.8 MOS2.7

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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12077 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Is there any possibility of installing 2.4 on an ibook or powerbook g4

    No.

    > the ibook has a chipset supported by morphos, so I'd think so...?

    MorphOS 2.4 checks for presence of Mac mini G4 hardware and refuses to boot on any other Mac hardware.
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 152 from 2009/12/9
    From: Virginia,USA
    Ok, guess I have to learn patience for more support.
    My Macs:
    Powerbook G4 ALU 1.5GHZ 15" 1.5GB OSX.5.8
    Powermac G4 MDD 1.5GHZ OSX.5.8 MOS2.7

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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    xyphoid
    Posts: 870 from 2008/7/11
    From: Delaware, USA
    ...at least not yet, perhaps in the immediate future. powerbooks have been mentioned of being supported at some point. BTW seasons greetings and welcome aboard!! Hang around learn and get everything you can initially on it for some nostalgia. :-)
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 152 from 2009/12/9
    From: Virginia,USA
    yeah, I'm a relatively new amiga user, got mine in july and I have used it quite a few times, bought a VGA adapter for it and 3.1 sometime soon in the future. I'd like a peg 2 but several hundred EURO isn't my idea of a deal
    My Macs:
    Powerbook G4 ALU 1.5GHZ 15" 1.5GB OSX.5.8
    Powermac G4 MDD 1.5GHZ OSX.5.8 MOS2.7

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  • Caterpillar
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    ddewbofh
    Posts: 25 from 2009/12/4
    From: Sweden
    Powerbook G4 support would be nice, even if it meant that the internal keyboard and touchpad wouldn't work. I have my Powerbook hooked up to an external screen so I'm using it with a proper keyboard and mouse most of the time anyway. MorphOS looks like a really interesting system to play around with but having to buy a (fairly) expensive old computer to use it is a bit of an obstacle.
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Zylesea
    Posts: 2053 from 2003/6/4
    The next release comes with support for PowerMac G4. These are fairly easy to pick up for little money. Maybe an option to play around with.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    stephen_robinson
    Posts: 746 from 2007/4/22
    Some efforts at 'hacking' the Mini-version onto a g4 powerMac here:- http://www.osnews.com/comments/22337

    They couldn't get it to work, I'd love a copy for a Mac laptop myself, but looks like we'll have to wait :(
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    SoundSquare
    Posts: 1213 from 2004/12/1
    From: Paris, France
    this article is kinda retarded.
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  • Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
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    Posts: 152 from 2009/12/9
    From: Virginia,USA
    Hey man, lets keep the offensive comments to a minimum. As retarded is a term that has become commonplace in some countries, I really don't want a flame war.
    My Macs:
    Powerbook G4 ALU 1.5GHZ 15" 1.5GB OSX.5.8
    Powermac G4 MDD 1.5GHZ OSX.5.8 MOS2.7

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    mike-
    Posts: 21 from 2007/11/14
    From: Alpha Centauri
    Try adding MacRisc2 and MacRisc3 to MorphOSBoot/mac_ppc32/macofboot basically having it say that g3 and g5 not just g4 is compatible. I suspect there are more checks though.

    Im not entirely sure it will work at all, given that i?ve had 5 minutes experience, but remember to make it executable anyway.

    [ Edited by mike- on 2009/12/12 8:26 ]

    [ Edited by mike- on 2009/12/12 8:29 ]
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12077 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Try adding MacRisc2 and MacRisc3 to MorphOSBoot/mac_ppc32/macofboot
    > basically having it say that g3 and g5 not just g4 is compatible. I suspect there
    > are more checks though.

    There are, of course. Else it would run on other G4 than Mac mini now.

    > Im not entirely sure it will work at all

    It won't, of course. Else it would run on other G4 than Mac mini now.
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    magnetic
    Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
    From: Los Angeles
    This is a very interesting thread. If there was MorphOS available for Powerbook g4 i'd buy another keyfile right now! I have a Powerbook g4 15' 1.25 ghz ready for it..
    Pegasos 2 Rev 2B3 w/ Freescale 7447 "G4" @ 1ghz / 1gb Nanya Ram
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