Geit reports: "
Here is a collection of images taken at the PowerDev #8 in September 2010 in our convention center. PowerBook and PowerMac systems running MorphOS were shown. Even the old PowerMac with 400 Mhz and Rage128 graphics card makes a good impression of the usability. MorphOS simply is fast on any hardware. PowerMac support will be released with MorphOS 2.6.
Of course we had a wide range of hardware running. Pegasos1, Pegasos2, Efika, yA1, AmigaOne, A2000 and several MacMinis were used during the meeting. Beside hardware there also was the software. A sneak preview of the
new Ambient panel system was shown which has some quite unique features. These new panels will replace the old ones in future Ambient versions. Also, a sneak preview of
MagicAction was shown. It is a MorphOS adapted version of the well known Automator. Furthermore, the new MorphOS scanner application and driver system
Scandal was demoed to the audience by using an Epson scanner. It is a rather nice piece of software and even the transparency unit worked.
We had alot of fun and interesting topics to discuss during the entire meeting. And it was nice to see several new software products getting ready for being released. A small museum with old hardware was shown at the entrance. There was even a Busch 2090 4 Bit computer (CPU: TMS 1600) with 768 byte of system memory, which worked the whole 72 hours without a crash. Not bad for a 27 year old computer system!
Another highlight was MorphOS playing 3D movies on the Pegasos2 system using a 3D display and proper glasses."
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Event Summary
The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.6 introducing support of Power Mac G4 systems. In addition to the extended hardware support, existing users will benefit from various bug fixes and a few new features. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.