Welcome. Before I switched to Mac, I was an Amiga Man too.
Larry
Hello one and all of the G-Group.
I currently have too many G3, G4 and G5 Mac computers, but I am trying
to sell some of them. My interest in them is in using both MacOS
(versions 9 and 10) and MorphOS on these fine old systems. For those
that don't know what MorphOS is, it is a re-write of AmigaOS3.1 for
PPC hardware and it started out 11 years ago on Phase5 PPC accelerator
boards for the Amiga A1200, A3000 & A4000 computers.
It is a very lightweight operating system, dubbed the "Lightning OS".
Although I like MacOS9 and MacOSX and use 10.5.8 for most of my
computing needs, I support the growth and expansion of MorphOS and
hope to be able to use it as my primary operating system very soon.
MorphOS3.0 is about to be released and will include support for the
last few G4 PowerBooks produced by Apple (models 1106, 1107, 1138, and
1139). MorphOS2.7 is the currently released version and it supports
all G4 Mac Mini's, the 1.25GHz & 1.42GHz G4 eMac's, almost all G4
PowerMacs, as long as you install an ATI Radeon video card in them.
For Mac owners that no longer enjoy using MacOS9, or MacOSX on their
slower G4 Mac hardware, you might want to give MorphOS a try, as it is
a free download for the 30 minute time limited demo version. After
the 30 minutes expire the system slows to a crawl until you restart
your computer and then you have another 30 minutes of unrestricted
speed for free. If you like it you can purchase a license keyfile
that will remove the time limitation and all updates are free for
registered users.
Proof of concept demonstrations of MorphOS have also been shown on a
dual 2.7GHz G5 PowerMac and a 2.1GHz G5 iMac, though the developers
have stated that they are concentrating on work to perfect MorphOS for
the currently supported G4 Mac hardware before they spend any time
working on porting MorphOS to the G5 models. Release of MorphOS3.0
with support for the 1.67GHz G4 PowerBooks will be a huge step forward
for all Amiga "Like" operating systems. MorphOS is capable of running
most AmigaOS3.1 friendly software natively by using a 680x0 to PPC
"Just-in-Time" compiler/interpreter. There are also many new MorphOS
native applications and games, or ports of applications and games from
other platforms.
I am bound to have many questions for the Mac users on this list, as
my experience with MacOSX is limited to only the last 5 years or so.
For example, I need to clone the hard drive in my dual 1.25GHz G4
PowerMac which has an Avid Meridian video editing system installed in
it. I bought 7 of these systems from a studio that was upgrading
their studio, with the break-out boxes for audio and video input/
output and USB dongles, but one of the systems had a damaged hard
drive and I am trying to restore use of the Avid Meridian editing
hardware and software by cloning the hard drive from one computer to
another. Since I have the USB dongles for all of the systems and both
the PCI cards inside the computer and the break-out boxes for input/
output, plus the USB dongles are required to use the software, I don't
see why the software on the hard drive would be protected from
copying, but it apparently is, as I have been unsuccessful in my
attempts to copy the Avid software from one hard drive to another.
Any help would be appreciated. I can also use Ubuntu PPC 10.10 to
clone the drive, if there are any tools for Linux that would be easier
to use than trying to do it with MacOSX. The Avid Meridian software
only runs on MacOS9.2.2, if that makes any difference to any of you
trying to help me. Thanks and I hope to get to know more of you on
this list in the future.
Regards,
AmigaDave
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