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New Amiga Hardware Runs Mac OS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-few-the-insane-amiga-fanatics dept.

Ethan writes: "A developer on the Yahoo Amiga One mailing list has successfully installed MacOS 9.2 using Mac On Linux. And it seems that adding OS X support is on the to-do horizon for the MOL developers. I think that it will be interesting to see the people at Apple lose some sleep now that a low cost, fast, off the shelf solution exists to run Mac OS, without any Apple hardware. If it doesn't do anything else, at least it will give the people buying the new Amiga One G3 PPC board an existing software base." Mind you, I've never even seen an Amiga One, but it would be a pretty silly thing to make up ;) Update: 07/05 07:03 GMT by T : Mike Bouma piped up with a link to a page featuring the same hardware, in this case running Debian, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla.

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  1. Executor by dknj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of MacOS.. why hasn't a decent MacOS emulator been made for the PC yet? Executor was neat, but it hasn't had any major advances in almost 5 years!

    -dk

  2. Re:Throw out the good, replace it with the bad by B3ryllium · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While he was in Chinatown, some bum rolled him and left him unconscious ... when he woke up, he was dazed and confused.

    For six months, he thought he was CowboyNeal. Hasn't been laid since.

  3. Yah come on by red5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously ObviousGuy, I'm intrigued what happens next.

    side note: for those who aren't in "the know" OG lives in Japan.

    So did you meat her? Was she cute? Aren't you married?

    --
    I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
  4. Urban Myth: VHS was inferior for consumers by joneshenry · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    That VHS was the technologically inferior choice that consumers were "tricked" into purchasing is simply an urban myth that has been exposed by those examining the role of pornography in encouraging growth and adoption of new media. VHS won because its length was more convenient for the renting of pornographic movies versus Betamax's initial targetting of time-shifting. VHS served a real need for people to be able to more conveniently view pornography in the privacy of their home.

    Open your mind and you'll see that the triumph of VHS was the triumph of freedom versus the corporate vision of Betamax, a decision the consumers wisely made. The consumers made the right decision.

  5. Re:Hmm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You mean you didn't notice until now? Good question. It probably has something to do with the fact that Europe is an overcrowded polluted shithole. OTOH it could have something to do with the antitrust authorities that beat their chests about cracking down on Microsoft and then wind up doing nothing; or it could be something else entirely.