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A great AW.net moderator Eliyahu has made this simple and nice guide
a few months ago we had another new-to-OS4 user ask the same questions. i responded in this thread, but i’ll repeat it here, too:
there is a tremendous amount of software that works well on amiga NG machines, both classic software from the 68K days as well as more modern applications. obviously exploring os4depot and aminet should be your first stops, but here are some of the tools i use on my SAM on a regular basis:
* astronomy: i’m a bit of a ‘backyard astronomer’ as it were so my absolute favorite amiga application is easily the superb digital universefrom bill eaves. it is commercially available, but very reasonably priced, and unlike astronomy programs on other platforms, this one gets you the information you need for observation quickly, easily, and without flim-flam. it is also hugely scriptable via REXX and is nice for demonstrations i sometimes do for neighborhood schoolchildren. a version of celestia, an open-source program from the GNU/linux world, is also available although requires miniGL — so you may have issues running it on your X1000 before the release of OS4.2.
* audio: coupled with a nice audio card, you’d be surprised what you can do with a modern amiga. previously commercial, audio evolution— a multi-track audio editing suite — is now available for free. additionally you’ll also want to check out HD-REC if you’re into MIDI. you’ll also want to try soundFX 4.3 on your system as well; although a classic application it works beautifully on my SAM. of course if you want to build up your MP3 collection, you’ll want ADripper to rip your CDs, tunenet or amigaamp3 to play them, and amipodder if you’re into podcasts. amuse is also good if you need a last.fm client. lastly you’ll want to play MODs — this is an amiga, after all — so check outmilkytracker, or hivelytracker, or schism, or ….
* emulation: there are emulators available for just about every classic computing or console platform you can imagine. among the ones i use are amiNES (for the original NES console), basilisk2 (for the classic Macintosh), DOSbox (for old DOS programs), E-UAE (for amiga games that ‘pound’ the custom chipset), hatari (for atari ST programs), KEGS (for apple IIgs emulation), VICE (for C64 and C128 games), and warpSNES (for the SNES). you’ll also find emulators for spectrum systems, amstrads, the original playstation, neogeo arcade games, and many others.
* graphics: most of the graphics tools i use from the classic days. among them are imageFX, photogenics, and fxpaint — which are available commercially — and tvpaint, personal paint, and perfect paint — which are freely available. probably the most used on my SAM is the photoshop-like arteffect from alinea, available for e15 including a printed manual. there’s also terrific 3D applications including the modern blender, the still-commercially available aladdin 4D, and the freely available lightwave 3D. if you want to work with vector graphics, check out amifig or the classic drawstudio v2.0, although finding the latter isn’t easy. there are many available graphics viewers out there for browsing your photo collection: amiphoto from alinea is my personal favorite, although warpview is excellent as well. some folks like loview.
* internet: this has been touched on by previous posters. among the tools to check out are, for IRC, amIRC for OS4 and wookiechat. for instant messaging you can use jabberwocky for google talk (and other services using a jabber backbone) and sabreMSN (for windows live messaging). folks have touched on browsers well enough: i find netsurf and MUIOWB to be my personal favorites. there is a native version of newscoaster for USENET newsgroups, a twitter client called amitwitter, and a telnet/SSH client called amtelnet (although for connecting to most systems using SSHv2, the openSSH client on os4depot is a better bet). remote access to your other systems can be done via either RDP or VNC with the remote desktop client and twinVNC respectively. there are several bittorrent clients — such asctorrent and transmission — but i’ve never been successful with either. lastly you’ll want to check out xnet-rss for RSS streams and subscriptions, and either YAM or simplemail for email.
* productivity: this is an area of relative weakness for our platform, most of the office tools for amiga NG very old indeed. that said there are some pearls, such as MUIbase as a database system, pagestream for page layout, and the amicygnix environment which brings tools like abiword and gnumeric to the amiga. on the classic side you might be interested in amigawriter from alinea (still sold today) or wordworth 7 for word processing. some folks swear by finalwriter 97, but that’s rather tough to find a copy. spreadsheets are rather old: some still use turbocalc 5, although i much prefer staram plan which is available freely.
* video: there are two varients of mplayer, the older reaction-based version and the more recent MUI-based port from morphOS. i’ve had much better performance with the reaction version, and coupled with mplayer-GUI, i quite like it. i’ve also purchased DVplayer and recommend it wholeheartedly. if you need to convert between formats ffmpeg and its accompanying GUI utility is rather useful and full video editing is possible in blender.
this post is getting way too long, so i’ll skip games and utilities for some other time. enjoy your new amiga NG!
Thanks Eliyahu and dis one from DJ Rikki and great Hollywood designer
MorphOS is an Amiga-compatible computer operating system. It is a mixed proprietary and open sourceOS produced for the PegasosPowerPC processor based computer, PowerUP accelerator equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi firmware, including the EFIKA and mobileGT. Since MorphOS 2.4, Apple’sMac Mini G4 is supported as well, and with the release of MorphOS 2.5 and MorphOS 2.6 the eMac and PowerMac G4 models are respectively supported. The core, based on the Quarkmicrokernel, is proprietary, although several libraries and other parts are open source, such as Ambientdesktop.
Amiga family development tree.
The project started in 1999, based on the Quarkmicrokernel. The earliest versions of MorphOS ran only via PPC accelerator cards on the Amiga computers, and required portions of AmigaOS to fully function. A collaborative effort between the companies bPlan (of which the lead MorphOS developer is a partner) and Thendic-France in 2002 resulted in the first regular, non-prototype production of bPlan-engineered Pegasos computers capable of running MorphOS or Linux. A busy promotional year followed in 2003, with appearances at conventions and exhibitions in several places around the world, including CES in Las Vegas. Thendic-France had financial problems and folded; however, the collaboration continued under the new banner of „Genesi„.
After some bitter disagreements within the MorphOS development team in 2003 and 2004 culminating with accusations by a MorphOS developer that he and others had not been paid, the Ambient desktop interface was released under GPL and is now actively developed by the Ambient development team. Subject to GPL rules, Ambient continues to be included in the commercial MorphOS product. An alternative MorphOS desktop system is Scalos.[5]
On April 1, 2008 the MorphOS team announced that MorphOS 2.0 would be released within Q2/2008. This promise was only kept by a few seconds, with the release of MorphOS 2.0 occurring on June 30, 2008 23:59 CET. MorphOS 2 is commercially available at a price of 150 EUR per machine (111,11 EUR as a special promotion within the first two weeks of its release). A fully functional demo of MorphOS is available, but without a keyfile, its speed is decreased significantly after 30 minutes of use.
| Version | Release Date | Information | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | June 30, 2008 | MorphOS 2.0 release notes | Added support for Efika 5200B platform |
| 2.1 | September 6, 2008 | MorphOS 2.1 release notes | |
| 2.2 | December 20, 2008 | MorphOS 2.2 release notes | |
| 2.3 | August 6, 2009 | MorphOS 2.3 release notes | |
| 2.4 | October 12, 2009 | MorphOS 2.4 release notes | Added support for Mac mini G4 |
| 2.5 | June 4, 2010 | MorphOS 2.5 release notes | Added support for eMac G4 |
| 2.6 | October 10, 2010 | MorphOS 2.6 release notes | Added support for Power Mac G4 |
| 2.7 | December 2, 2010 | MorphOS 2.7 release notes | |
| 3.0 | June 8, 2012 | MorphOS 3.0 release notes | Added support for PowerBook G4 |
| 3.1 | July 8, 2012 | MorphOS 3.1 release notes |
Following is a (probably incomplete) list of changes made between the 2.7 and 3.0 release of MorphOS to the ROM (boot.img) based components.
| System ID | System Name | Model |
| PowerBook5,6 | PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15“ | A1106 |
| PowerBook5,7 | PowerBook G4 Aluminum 17“ | A1107 |
| PowerBook5,8 | PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15“ | A1138 |
| PowerBook5,9 | PowerBook G4 Aluminum 17“ | A1139 |
Module providing a battery sensor.
Support for the I2C found in PowerBooks.
Module handling Keylargo units found in PowerBooks.
Native support for PFS3, making it possible to boot MorphOS from PFS3 formatted media. This product includes software developed by Michiel Pelt.
Module controlling special keys, power saving, LCD backlight, fans, etc on PowerBook computers.
A library providing simple trigger->notification system meant to handle all sorts of sensors.
Delivers support for 4 temperature sensors in a PowerBook and 1 in a PowerMac.
Library to support raw touchpad input to cursor movement conversions.
Following is a (probably incomplete) list of changes made to the disk based components of MorphOS. While not mentioned for every component translations were updated for most of them. Also various cosmetic fixes were applied here and there.
Some of the new components were already made available as part of the MorphOS 2.7 SDK distribution.
FLAC/Wav CDDA ripper based around cdparanoia.
Simple CD/DVD authoring & copying utility.
for the exhaustive changes.
Powerful text editor built around Scintilla, a port of a widely used text editing component. Includes developer support and UTF file handling.
FTP/SFTP client application.
A new PDF reader application.
Command to display current battery status.
Simple command to eject CD media.
Text conversion utility.
ISO 639 language code class.
An utility class to display calltips.
MorphOS port of the current Scintilla text editor as a MUI class.
General purpose FIFO buffer.
Decoder for IFF DEEP images.
Demultiplexer for IFF DEEP images.
Decoder for IFF ILBM images.
Demultiplexer for IFF ILBM images.
Decoder for JPEG images.
Demultiplexer for JPEG images.
Demultiplexer for Atari Degas/Neochrome images.
Decoder for Atari Degas/Neochrome images.
Decoder for PCX images.
Demultiplexer for PCX images.
Decoder for PNG images.
Demultiplexer for PNG images.
Wrapper class for processing raw PCM video streams in different formats.
Decoder for SunRaster images.
Demultiplexer for SunRaster images.
Decoder for Targa images.
Demultiplexer for Targa images.
Network printing driver.
Shared Cairo graphical library.
FUSE wrapper library.
Shared fontconfig port.
FTP support library for Transfer.
Lua scripting language with additional module allowing sending commands to applications in a way compatible with ARexx.
Shared Pixman library.
Spell checking support shared library.
Shared library providing regular expressions support.
Simple Reggae based music player.
The following is a (probably incomplete) list of changes made between the 3.0 and 3.1 release of MorphOS to the ROM (boot.img) based components.
DOS
Intuition
Layers
Mount
PFS3 filesystem
PowerBook
Following is a (probably incomplete) list of changes made to the disk based components of MorphOS. While not mentioned for every component translations were updated for most of them. Also various cosmetic fixes were applied here and there.
Ambient
Applications/Jalapeno
Applications/Transfer
Applications/VPDF
Blankers/Sproingies
Blankers/Feathers
C/ConvertText
C/Route
Classes/Screenbars/Volumecontrol
Classes/Multimedia/multimedia.class
L/MUICON
Libs/cairo.library
Libs/fontconfig.library
Libs/tinygl.library
MUI
Tools/HDConfig
Tools/IWizard
Utilities/Multiview
Leo (not a real Negro, but bad, bad Aussie) promised it
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32205&forum=44#667585
They neva did it and dont plan to do, but my stilish bredda Daddy did it!
And this is how fake Amigans say thanks … even they could buy it out and do the magic an mass!
And InI lost AW.net account because I asked about it (AW.net moderators …)
But, hey DADDY DIT IT! So it was wothy!
Loriano is THE DADDY with his nice Italian stylish design! A500 revitalized!
Update: Now Black and Sexy!
Now also in sexy black
http://www.youtube.com/user/LorianoPagni
Just like Reggae is Daddy fi UK Urban music
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