18 May
2010
18 May
'10
10:22 a.m.
I see notes around the underweb about people using a custom OpenFirmware
loader to get AmigaOS 4 booting on the G4-based Mac mini. This sounds like
a ready-made way to create an Amiga laptop -- just use an iBook G4, which is
nearly identical technically. Has anyone tried using the Moana loader? I am
intrigued by AmigaOS, but I don't really have the space to set up a new PPC
Amiga to try it (thus a laptop form factor would be fabulous).
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18 May
18 May
10:26 a.m.
Head over to amiga.org and ask again. There are some people there who
are using mac minis to run amigaos.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
I see notes around the underweb about people using a
custom OpenFirmware
loader to get AmigaOS 4 booting on the G4-based Mac mini. This sounds like
a ready-made way to create an Amiga laptop -- just use an iBook G4, which is
nearly identical technically. Has anyone tried using the Moana loader? I am
intrigued by AmigaOS, but I don't really have the space to set up a new PPC
Amiga to try it (thus a laptop form factor would be fabulous).
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10:44 a.m.
Head over to amiga.org and ask again. There are some
people there who
are using mac minis to run amigaos.
I'll check this out. I can't find the loader for download anywhere, though.
I find mentions of it and some expired torrents but nothing current.
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10:50 a.m.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
After reading the other post about morphos, now I think I might have
this wrong. But check it out anyway. I thought it was AmigaOS.
brian
Head over to
amiga.org and ask again. ?There are some people there who
are using mac minis to run amigaos.
I'll check this out. I can't find the loader for download anywhere, though.
I find mentions of it and some expired torrents but nothing current. 
10:31 a.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I see notes around the underweb about people using a
custom OpenFirmware
loader to get AmigaOS 4 booting on the G4-based Mac mini. This sounds like
a ready-made way to create an Amiga laptop -- just use an iBook G4, which is
nearly identical technically. Has anyone tried using the Moana loader? I am
intrigued by AmigaOS, but I don't really have the space to set up a new PPC
Amiga to try it (thus a laptop form factor would be fabulous).
Cameron,
I haven't heard anyone doing that, but that's pretty darn cool.
Please post your results along with pictures, specific versions of
whatever software you used, "gotchas", etc! :)
I'd be interested to take a look!
Keith
10:44 a.m.
New subject: questionably OT: AmigaOS 4 on Mac PPC\
I see notes
around the underweb about people using a custom OpenFirmware
loader to get AmigaOS 4 booting on the G4-based Mac mini. This sounds like
a ready-made way to create an Amiga laptop -- just use an iBook G4, which is
nearly identical technically. Has anyone tried using the Moana loader? I am
intrigued by AmigaOS, but I don't really have the space to set up a new PPC
Amiga to try it (thus a laptop form factor would be fabulous).
I haven't heard anyone doing that, but that's pretty darn cool.
10:52 a.m.
New subject: questionably OT: AmigaOS 4 on Mac PPC\
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
There are some YouTube videos showing it, but the only
other thing I can
find is some expired Pirate Bay torrents with the loader, instructions and
of course no seeds. I'm hoping someone has the loader portion and I'll add
it to a legal copy of AmigaOS.
Did you check aminet? http://aminet.net/ (That might be suggesting
the obvious) I'm not sure if it has what you're after, but it's not
failed me yet.
brian
10:32 a.m.
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
I see notes around the underweb about people using a
custom OpenFirmware
loader to get AmigaOS 4 booting on the G4-based Mac mini. This sounds like
a ready-made way to create an Amiga laptop -- just use an iBook G4, which is
nearly identical technically. Has anyone tried using the Moana loader? I am
intrigued by AmigaOS, but I don't really have the space to set up a new PPC
Amiga to try it (thus a laptop form factor would be fabulous).
Interesting. I've heard of this being done with MorphOS, but not AOS4.
I was quite tempted, but as a near-total Amiga newbie/numpty, the
instructions looked quite hairy to me. Also note that at least for
those I looked at, you more or less had to use the internal drive, and
dual-booting was a significantly more complex additional option, not
something one might do out of the box.
(After all, to Amigans, what possible use or interest is there to Mac
OS? Who needs thousands of applications anyway? And that Unix thing,
it's over-rated, it'll never catch on...)
But recently the HD in my Mac mini died, so I'm going to have to
replace it. At least, I think that's what happened. I'm hoping so,
anyway - it's about the only failure mode I have a realistic chance of
repairing myself.
So when I find & fit a new one, I'll need to wipe & reload. To do
that, well, I might as well try MorphOS first, and maybe AOS, if I can
get hold of a copy.
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