New Amiga Hardware Runs Mac OS

Ethan writes: "A developer on the Yahoo Amiga One mailing list has successfully installed MacOS 9.2 using Mac On Linux. And it seems that adding OS X support is on the to-do horizon for the MOL developers. I think that it will be interesting to see the people at Apple lose some sleep now that a low cost, fast, off the shelf solution exists to run Mac OS, without any Apple hardware. If it doesn't do anything else, at least it will give the people buying the new Amiga One G3 PPC board an existing software base." Mind you, I've never even seen an Amiga One, but it would be a pretty silly thing to make up ;) Update: 07/05 07:03 GMT by T : Mike Bouma piped up with a link to a page featuring the same hardware, in this case running Debian, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla.

Did you even click the link?

[phriedom]

Oh you did? You looked at the Mac On Linux site and this:
"What Is Mac On Linux? Mac-on-Linux lets you run MacOS under Linux/ppc. MOL runs natively on the processor, i.e. it is very fast. Unlike most mac emulators, MOL can run MacOS 8.6 and later WITHOUT A ROM IMAGE

I didn't add the emphasis, by the way. So you read that and decided it is all a big fat lie. I wish I was smart like you and knew everything about everything.

Re:AmigaOne isn't a particular machine, it's a SPE

[ObviousGuy]

So Yellow Dog Linux running on an AmigoOne running an emulation of MacOS 9 is really an emulator running on an emulator running on an emulator?

The speed must be astounding.

Re:Guys

[Kamel Jockey]

And I have yet to see this actually happenning.

It just needs to be predicted on The Simpsons! Remember the episode in which Bart sold his soul to Milhouse, who then sold it to Comic Book Guy in exchange for Alf pogs? That was a few years back, and of course Milhouse told Bart (about Alf) "He's coming back, you know!" And now he is back! So write to Fox, et al. and have them feature this, we'll have a tangible product in no time!

Re:Businessweek on Gassee and BeOS

[ObviousGuy]

You're surprised that a guy whose name is Gassee would have a bloated ego?

Ahhh... reminds me of Shapeshifter

[Little Dave]

This takes me back to when I was young and full of piss and vinegar. Had myself a distressingly modified A1200 in a tower case with more processing power and RAM than an Amiga was meant to hold - not to mention a big fat fan tied to the gfx card that somehow caused the case to vibrate like a washing machine. That was when computing was done by real men - I sustained numerous minor fleshwounds and a deep fear of hacksaws when I shoehorned that pesky motherboard into my tower case! I still maintain to this day that a computer isn't truely yours till you've bled on the motherboard and smelled the sweet sweet aroma of silicon and burning blood...

One of the more attractive features of this painful experience, apart from the surge of testosterone, was that the bitch could run Shapeshifter, a software Mac emu that was better* than the real thing! I used to spend more time in SS than in AmigaOS, mostly to play with Civ 2, but also because of the joy that the "Eep!" sound effect brought to my traumatised mind. Ahhh.

Happy days...

* - by "better" I mean "slower, unless viewed through the eyes of an advocate, in which case I mean "faster".

Re:Urban Myth: VHS was inferior for consumers

[mumkin]

VHS won because its length was more convenient for the renting of pornographic movies versus Betamax's initial targetting of time-shifting. VHS served a real need for people to be able to more conveniently view pornography in the privacy of their home.

The point being that Betamax's 1 hour tape length (designed to record network broadcasts) wasn't long enough to contain the material that consumers wanted to rent - porn.

Much of the article you link to [indiana.edu] makes sterling sense, but how many porn movies really need to be over an hour long? I would argue that Betamax might have proven quite the boon to the porn industry, by helping to focus their screenwriting and editing efforts toward producing films with tighter dialog and more efficient plot development. No, I think in this case the consumer lost :)