Retro Activity: MorphOS 1.0

An anonymous reader submites: "You can read it from their development page if you like to get the word from the horses mouth. 'The current version is 1.0. Feedback welcome.' Hey, if you can't revive a dead horse, whip it some more, yeah?" All the better to run programs on their "old Commodore(TM) A1000, A500, A2000, A1200, A3000(T) and A4000(T) systems as efficiently as possible." Everyone has different uses for time.

Comments

Its not for C64

[ageitgey]

Unlike the post says, this isn't an OS for the old Commodore computers. This is a reimplementation of that old OS for PowerPC machines. They are trying to maintain API compatibility so you can run the old programs right on a PowerPC box.

From the website:
"Under the Quark kernel a PowerPC(TM) native reimplementation of the OS we know from the Commodore(TM) A1000, A500, A2000, A1200, A3000(T) and A4000(T) systems runs as a mixture of a virtual emulation and a driver. We call this OS driver from now on the A-Box."

Re:Its not for C64

[fod]

Unlike the post says, this isn't an OS for the old Commodore computers. This is a reimplementation of that old OS for PowerPC machines. They are trying to maintain API compatibility so you can run the old programs right on a PowerPC box.

Actually, it does run on Amigas with PowerPC CPUs too.

http://www.morphos.de/support.php3
Platform: Pegasos, A4000(T), A3000(T), A1200

Morphos screenshots

[Anonymous Coward]

OSNews had an informative article a few days ago about Morphos. Check the article and 2 screenshots of the OS here:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1897

Re:Where?

[subuni]

The closest I can find to an announcement is at http://www.morphos-news.de. v1.0 will be released on Oct 14 to "betatesters".

MorphOS

[Anonymous Coward]

This OS is made in the "spirit" of the AmigaOS, but with all the stuff a modern os should have, plus it runs Amiga programs through a combination of 68k emulation and the AmigaOS api ported to PowerPC. There is also a PowerPC motherboard being made especially for the os, called Pegasos, Thendic France is the main distributor. MorphOS just got bumped to release version 1.0 and both the motherboard and OS are available for sale.

This motherboard also comes with a version of linux for PPC. Besides that MorphOS will also run on Amigas equiped with a PPC cpu and rumour goes a PowerMac version could be released one day.

Intended hardware.

[Anonymous Coward]

MorphOS is intended for the POP-compliant Pegasos PowerPC board from bPlan. Note that while a Realtek PHYceiver is listed, that's just the PHY; the ethernet controller itself is a Via Rhine derivative embedded in the southbridge. Pictures here. It can also run on classic Amigas with appropriate PowerPC accellerators; NetBSD is also being readied for the bPlan hardware.

AmigaOS 4 is the 'name-brand' product, being produced under contract by Germany's Hyperion Software. It's intended for Eyetech's AmigaOne G3SE and XE products, and Elbox's SharkPPC accellerator in classic hardware with suitable PCI busboards. Hardware dongling of the AmigaOne (with respect to AmigaOS; Linux and *BSD will run unhindered), and continuing intellectual-property disputes may or may not effect the chances of OS4 support for the Pegasos.

All three new PowerPC boards use MAI's PowerPC chipsets, also seen on the Linux-friendly Barbie.

Nor should we forget 'AmigaDE' or 'Amiga-Anywhere,' a crossplatform system based on Tao's Intent runtime + media libs, which is really quite cool even if they've just redesigned their site opaquely. the CEO of Gentoo provides a good writeup here.

All your Boing are belong to us, NOT!

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry!

Unless this is an Amiga Inc. story, It shouldnt run with the Amiga Boing Ball Logo (i.e. The Origional 1985, 8 x 8 checker pattern).

MorphOS has a great logo: so thier stories should use the propper butterfly. Its a really nice logo too... . . . .