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I found a G4 Mac (Installed MorphOS)
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:30 am
by terriblefire
I was clearing out my loft as part of my house move and came across a G4 Mac Mini in a box. Mac used to be my wifes until she upgraded.
So being a geek i grabbed a MorphOS CD from
https://www.morphos-team.net and installed it... and well i'm v impressed. Seems to be AmigaOS on PPC for hardware that is less than £100. You can still get the G4s on ebay for pennies.
I really like.
Re: I found a G4 Mac (Installed MorphOS)
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:56 pm
by rubber_jonnie
terriblefire wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:30 am
I was clearing out my loft as part of my house move and came across a G4 Mac Mini in a box. Mac used to be my wifes until she upgraded.
So being a geek i grabbed a MorphOS CD from
https://www.morphos-team.net and installed it... and well i'm v impressed. Seems to be AmigaOS on PPC for hardware that is less than £100. You can still get the G4s on ebay for pennies.
I really like.
I have a 1.5Ghz G4 17" Powerbook, and I have to say that even with 1.5GB RAM MorphOS didn't run very well at all. Might have to give it another try, but the thing I REALLY want for my PBG4 is a new battery. Oh, and to work out why the right hand speaker doesn't work. Problem is, all the damn screws you need to pull out to get inside the damn thing!
Re: I found a G4 Mac (Installed MorphOS)
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:58 pm
by Aeberbach
Nice - what G4 mini do you have? There was a "secret" upgrade toward the end of the G4 mini's life. Instead of 1.42GHz the CPU was 1.5GHz, but the bigger upgrade was 128MB graphics instead of 64MB. This shows up in system information but not is not printed on the box.
You can also run OS 9 using a community-modified installer, it is the fastest way to run classic System. Everything but sound works, easily fixed with a cheap USB DAC (i.e. one made for Raspberry Pi).
Re: I found a G4 Mac (Installed MorphOS)
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:45 pm
by alexh
I'm curious to know if there are MorphOS equivalents of most of the AmigaOS4.x software?
(e.g. is there anything to run?)
Re: I found a G4 Mac (Installed MorphOS)
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:40 am
by terriblefire
Aeberbach wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:58 pm
Nice - what G4 mini do you have? There was a "secret" upgrade toward the end of the G4 mini's life. Instead of 1.42GHz the CPU was 1.5GHz, but the bigger upgrade was 128MB graphics instead of 64MB. This shows up in system information but not is not printed on the box.
You can also run OS 9 using a community-modified installer, it is the fastest way to run classic System. Everything but sound works, easily fixed with a cheap USB DAC (i.e. one made for Raspberry Pi).
I'll just use my macbook pro for MacOS>
alexh wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:45 pm
I'm curious to know if there are MorphOS equivalents of most of the AmigaOS4.x software?
(e.g. is there anything to run?)
You can run all normal 68k software thats system friendly i believe.
In terms of native stuff...
I've had
https://wayfarer.icu/ running no probs.
Also have quake going really nicely.
Re: I found a G4 Mac (Installed MorphOS)
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 9:41 am
by terriblefire
I recommend the SDK being installed right away.
Gives you access to gcc, make, cmake etc. As well as the gnu utils.
Re: I found a G4 Mac (Installed MorphOS)
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:14 pm
by arkadiusz.makarenko
terriblefire wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 9:41 am
I recommend the SDK being installed right away.
Gives you access to gcc, make, cmake etc. As well as the gnu utils.
This is best selling point for me.
If MorphOS has decent editors and targeting 68k works out of the box, and you can hotswap sd or compact flash then it would be best Amiga development gear available.
Re: I found a G4 Mac (Installed MorphOS)
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:24 pm
by terriblefire
TBH i just use VS Code and WSL. Amiga GCC and VBCC/VASM.
It gives perfect modern IDE for amiga development.