MorphOS for Amiga adds Mac mini support, someone in Europe is delighted
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Oct 15th 2009 6:07AM
posted Oct 15th 2009 6:07AM
Amiga owners are a loyal bunch. And they have to be -- stuck with a machine frozen in time (even if OS 5 was claimed to be "better than OS X") and little in the way of support, the manner in which they've stubbornly stuck with the platform over the years can only be described as a labor of love. If you've been wondering what all the fuss is about but no longer have a PowerPC-based Amiga system handy, the MorphOS Dev Team has just announced that its latest -- MorphOS 2.4 -- now supports Mac mini G4 machines. Available now, you can either hit the read link to download for yourself, or wait until the upcoming Amiga user group meeting in Bad Bramstedt, Germany. You know, whatever you find more convenient. As for us, we're going to go play a game of Ooops Up! for old time's sake.
[Thanks, Antti Jarvinen]
[Thanks, Antti Jarvinen]
Aahhhh.... Amiga...
So many memories...
Yep, that and my Atarti ST(e). It was a decent upgrade from the ZX Spectrum! Wow... now I am reminiscing!
Yep, that and my Atarti ST(e). It was a decent upgrade from the ZX Spectrum! Wow... now I am reminiscing!
Guru Meditation #aabbcccc.dddddddd.
Yep, I had the Amiga 500 and the exact setup shown... Miss those days...
Hey you ! One of you asked for a x86 version of Amiga OS,
well then check out AROS and Icaros Desktop Live DVD.
The only open source amiga alternative out there !
http://www.icarosdesktop.org
http://www.aros-exec.org
http://www.aros.org
welcome in nerdville !
Why don't they do a Intel Version??
There is. Just type AmiKit and you will have excellent looking & working Amiga system on a PC :)
I loved my Amiga 1000. That platform deserved a much better fate than what it got. Still, I salute those loyal users who stuck by it even after all these years.
I still have my 1000 sitting the the basement. MC68010 processor, Genlock, 1 meg memory expansion and all my old software.
Here here!
There are still features of the amiga os and even in a sense parts of the hardware that have not been matched
full respects to that amazing system, I had a few models over the years. Still truly revolutionary.
i miss my beloved amiga :(
Just use "Amiga Forever" on intel
Tip: Don't do a search for amiga cracktros on Youtube. You'll be stuck in a youtube vortex and be late for work.
My Amiga was great. It was so ahead of its time.
those OS developers really have way too much time on theirs hands, they should go do something more productive
Mine was the 2000 bx (or something like that) a proper machine that looked like a PC and I was the talk of the town after going from the ZX80, 81, Spectrum, Spectrum + (upgraded myself with a microdrive)
Oh my - I'm really reminiscing now!?
In fairness, your avatar of BigTrak is bringing back far more memories for me...
Yea I almost bought one from EBay a while back - and Merlin?
I didn't realise how lucky I was to have had BigTrak AND the trailer till I started researching - the trailer was released more in the US (theirs was a grey version) and I remember delivering drinks to my Nan with it!?
OK that's enough now.
BTW: I'm not seeing the BigTrak avatar any more does Engadget alternate between all of the pictures uploaded?
AmigaOS is the shit, I really want to try an up to date one and I still have a working Amiga 600 :P
What a great system it was; stereo sound when the PC only could produce simple bleeps, full color, mixing resolutions on a single screen. Real multitasking OS and (with a good HD and optimized s:startup-sequence) a full boot in less than 5 seconds.... hell I´m thinking of buying a mini G4 just for the fun of it
Ahhh the old girl is still ticking over, such great times with my A500 and A1200, still light years ahead of its time.
I remember firing up the shell with cutstom sounds from trek TOS
Also remember an eye watering 50mb Ext Hard Drive for 500Sterling...OUCH!!!!!!!
Oh yeah... I forgot... I multitasking graphical OS that fits on one diskette (of 880Kb) (not including the extras)
"Accolade presents"....
Oh stop it, you are making me teary
Oh oh!
And who can forget that the Amiga was the first computer that offered simultaneous operating systems, ala vmware. I recall running mac os7, dos and amiga os all at once, switching between, copy paste.
Or multiple resolutions on the one screen.
F-ing gold mate, f-ing gold
The Amiga 500 could do copy and paste 20 years before the iPhone and with only 512k RAM and a 7.16 MHz processor (that's MHz, not GHz!).
HAM mode!
Copper! Blitter!
Agnus, Denise and Paula!
The Amiga was an unforgettable machine.
First... there was Menace...
In fairness to it, Ooops Up! was just Pang with a funky soundtrack that is now stuck in my head again. Cheers...
I ♥ my A500. Cinemaware FTW!
Ahh...what could've been had BeOS or Amiga survived and dominated but we live in the present and unfortunately, Haiku and the Amiga like OSes are niche OSes for enthusiasts at best.
Btw, I still love the look of the Amiga 500, maybe because I always wanted one as a kid but at the time we were dirt poor so we weren't able to get one.
Probably have my fondest computing memories with my A500 (first typed paper, first computer gaming, first midi listened to). Classic Sierra games, Mavis Beacon, etc... memories.
The Amiga was truely ahead of it's time.. smooth graphics with up to 4096 colors, stereo sound, and a real preemptive multitasking OS with a far more reponsive GUI than on any OS today.. all this back in 1985!
It's a real shame that Comodore died like it did, and the Amiga had such a tragic fate.
It's also a shame that the classic Amigas are no longer supported by projects such as MorphOS or even AmigaOS 4 itself.. the PowerPC systems have much more horsepower (not to mention hardware availability), but it's no longer the beautiful, fully paralellized architecture of the old times..
Thankfully, there are projects such as "minimig" and "natami" (www.natami.net), trying to reproduce - and in the later case, greatly enhance - the classic Amiga architecure! :-)
Agree 100%! The cool thing about the Amiga was that it had hardware graphics acceleration back when PCs had ISA video cards outputting 4 colors. What's the point of keeping the OS alive if you abandon the hardware?
I wish I never sold that thing! I can still hear the soundtrack for SOTB. I remember paying $500 at J&R Music World in NYC for the 20 MB HD just so I would not have to swap disks in Dragon's Lair ROFL! For what it did in it's time the Amiga was da bombdiggity!
Oh, those nights when I was coding on the thing until the Sun came up. Programming the amiga was a joy I never experienced on any other platform. Just looking at that picture makes me nostalgic to the tears.
Ahh the Amiga. Such fond memories... I can still hear the clicks and see the red and green loading lights as I prayed that Cannon Fodder wouldn't crash on level 52. Or the thrill of Stunt Car Racer as I hammered along it's rollercoaster like tracks at 5 frames a second.
Such clever game development back then. It was amazing what Team 17 and the Bitmap Brothers could squeeze out of a machine with a 7mhz processor and 512k ram.
Game of Speedball 2 anyone?
I worked in a multi million dollar video production suite and the Amiga with a Video Toaster had a front row seat right beside the editing console. Those were the days. Shame that the Amiga end so badly. It did things that were impossible to recreate with all that advanced equipment in the studio and earned a reputation as a killer video appliance.
Ahead of it's time and truly revolutionary. Today most everything in PCs just seems evolutionary.
I really miss Amiga, I still play some old games on my A1200 with my son and play with Amiga Forever but I would really love to be able to run a new AmigaOS on modern AMD hardware with an AGA emulator for old software support.
Most of us old Amigans aren't pushing Amiga as an alternative to anything, we are into retro computing and love playing those "old" games. I just can't seem to get the same experience on today's platforms. Don't get me wrong, my family has a lot of fun with our Wii but it's just not the same. I get more use out of MAME and my A1200.
I hope Hyperion Entertainment can surprise us with a AMD version of AmigaOS.
I picked up on of those new old stock amiga 1200 last week from amigakit. happy days indeed. brand new amiga 1200 in 2009 :)
ah the memories - i was a die hard amiga nut - went so far as to upgrade my a1200 with a cdrom drive, hd drive and a 68060 cpu... was also looking into some sort of towering system until something went poof. My computer choice after that was an imac for 3 reasons - i as interested in graphic design, the pc compatibles were all too difficult to figure out which was the best choice (at time less choice is better!) and the os was closer to the amiga's!
swos is still my all time favourite game followed closely by cannon fodder - funny how those games never translated well on any other platform...
Something wonderful has happened...your Amiga is alive!
Wow. I still have my Amiga 500 in the basement (I too was a die hard Amiga fan). What what a great OS & system back in the day. And it was better than Mac & Windows--at the time. The Amiga is what got me started into design & animation. I remember playing Dragons Lair on this, switching out the floppy disk every 5 minutes lol
Went from Amiga to Mac, to the dark side :-p
*plays mp3 rip of Lotus 3 theme loudly*
mmmmm
This gave me goosebumps.
The Amiga had one massive, fatal floaw. Comadore.
It was so ahead of it's time in both hardware and software and also user community. Man I saw a computer show video recently from the late 80s and that thing was on the internet even then.
In 1990 to have a world wide user base of about 10 million was amazing and if some giant company had been at the helm instead of struggling Comadore then they could have put money into R&D and kept evolving and expanding. Today we would have a major third player along with the Windows PC and OS Macs.
I used an Apple monitor because I could change the Vsync on it for PAL.
BBSs, user groups, the bleeding freakin INTERNET.
changing the cursor to a shadowed 10 pixel arrow.
Work Bench, RAM DISK, Disk Master, mods, the endless list....
it was so easy to use, so easy to understand...
AMIGA one of your first girlfriends.
I'm gonna be late for work now - thanks Joseph.