| From: | Joseph Fenton |
| Date: | 07 Aug 2000 at 08:38:40 |
| Subject: | Re: morphos ;-) |
Steffen Haeuser wrote:
>
> owner-warpup-list@haage-partner.com wrote :
>
> Hi!
>
> >> is comparable to MorphOS.
> ow> But morphos is available for amiga users which is not the case for your Blackbox (and will
> ow> probably be never available for us) :(
>
> Still it is a bit pointless for anything else but a 604+040 combination. And
> in case there will be a G3 Board I think it is likely the Blackbox will be
> available for old hardware too... the more limiting part of MorphOS is though
> that no WarpOS *and* no Warp3D Apps run under it... that makes it pretty
> useless...
Not entirely pointless - MorphOS allows them to work the kinks
out of the system before the PPC only cards are available. They
are doing like Microsoft and using the current hardware folks to
beta test the software. As a result, it's in a better state
to grab the PPC only market than H&P's black box emulation.
I don't know the state of H&P's emulation, but MorphOS looks
pretty good right now, and improving rapidly from the user
feedback.
If it gets good enough and H&P hasn't released their
emulation, someone will write a WarpOS emulation library
for it much like Frank Wille's ppc.library emulation
for WarpOS. WarpOS's use of the EHF extension to AmigaDOS
file structure is certainly easier to support than ELF
is. :^}