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You can upgrade the demo to the full version at any time, so this is a good way to check for compatibility with your hardware and take a few first steps. It is an unrestricted full version, but after 30 minutes, performance will degrade to the point where it forces a reboot.

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Just burn the image onto a CD using Toast or Burn and boot from the disc to install a full version of MorphOS. However, there is a 30 minute demo version free to download. (Programmers have to eat too!) A license is 79 Euros вЂ“ and 111.11 Euros for you PowerBook elitists. Not so fast, young Padawan! MorphOS is a commercial product.

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Rumors indicate it is in beta testing already coming with update 3.2 or 3.3 around the yearвЂ™s end вЂ“ hopefully along with support for using external displays. WiFi isnвЂ™t supported yet, which is kind of a bummer for a PowerBook user. Trackpad and keyboard are fully supported power management is also implemented. Summer 2012 saw the release of the long-awaited version 3 of MorphOS with support for PowerBook Models 5,6 to 5,9 (15вЂі and 17вЂі Aluminum G4 PowerBooks). (DonвЂ™t expect the games to run though, as most of them were using custom chips found only in older Amiga models.) And, of course, there is a capable web browser, the WebKit-based Odyssey Web Browser (OWB), which performs very well with me.ДЄlso keep in mind that MorphOS has 680Г—0 binary compatibility with the original AmigaOS (just as PowerPC Macs had 680Г—0 emulation for older software), which means that old 1980s and 1990s legacy Amiga applications might run. MorphOS users have MPlayer for video playback, the audio player Jukebox, SimpleMail for email, the media center A-MC (release soon), Jalapeno for burning CDs/DVDs, the text-editor Scribble, and Transfer for FTP/SFTP вЂ“ just to name a few.

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Being a niche system, MorphOS lacks the large range of Mac OSВ X, even though there is software for almost all the essential tasks. There are even some вЂњproof of conceptвЂќ versions of MorphOS on iMac G5 and Power Mac G5, but those are not likely to surface anytime soon.ДЄn operating system is only as good as the software available for it.

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According to Frank Mariak of the MorphOS team, theyвЂ™re currently working hard on completing driver support for the available machines (and plan on adding some iBook G4 support in the near future as well). It also includes a list of printers that are currently supported. However, it does not support every Mac вЂ“ far from it вЂ“ so it is wise to check the compatibility sheet on the MorphOS website (at present, 1.25-1.42 GHz eMacs, G4 Mac minis, 1.67 GHz G4 PowerBooks, and G4 Power Macs not using GeForce MX video cards are supported).

In fact, it could be the fastest still-supported operating system for older PowerPC Macs. User reports indicate that MorphOS is even speedy on old Power Mac models, such as the 566 MHz Digital Audio. There is always an immediate reaction to user input, making it a very pleasant alternative for someone who had a stuttering Ubuntu PowerPC installation on his 1.25 GHz eMac. If you have ever used an Amiga, youвЂ™ll notice a lot of similarities, whether it is the integrated RAM disk or simply the fact that the overall reaction time is phenomenal. MorphOS is a lightweight operating system. ItвЂ™s an established operating system with a history and a small, yet loyal, fanbase deeply rooted in the Amiga community. It is not an all new alternative operating system for our aging PowerPC beauties. Why am I writing all this history stuff? Because itвЂ™s important to know if you want to understand MorphOS. The only flaw was the Apple logo on the cases, but really, nothing that would stop them. The MorphOS team looked around and came up with a clever idea вЂ“ why produce their own expensive hardware when there was plenty of hardware to be had for very little money?ДЄpple had moved on to Intel architecture by this time, and prices for PowerPC Macs started to drop. What to do? ItвЂ™s Their Party, Not Ours, but WeвЂ™re Invited But after the Pegasos II sales stopped in late 2006, no new hardware was in sight. MorphOS was initially designed to run on Amiga clone hardware, such as the PowerPC G3 and G4-based Pegasos I and II or the Efika. The last Amiga, the 68040-based A4000T, was introduced in 1994 and discontinued in 1997.) However, the Amiga platform never migrated to PowerPC or any other architecture. ( Amiga computers, first launched in 1985, used the same Motorola 680Г—0 CPUs found in pre-PowerPC Macs. Back in the late 90s, when things looked dire for the remaining Amiga community, a committed team attempted to create a modern yet вЂњAmiga-ishвЂќ operating system for PowerPC computers. MorphOS screen shot, reduced from 1680 x 1050 pixels.