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Welcome to Amigaworld!
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Information taken from Amitopia TV
http://www.amitopiatv.com/
Red, blue and black? Confused?
Welcome to Amigaworld!
Today we can call all these platforms
for Amiga. Amiga is no longer tied to
the 68k family. It's split into
different colours In the early birth
of these 2 PowerPC operating systems,
there was and is still a small colour
war between red and blue side of the
camps.
So, who is who?
Red - Classic Amiga + AmigaOS 4
Blue - MorphOS
Black - AROS
What's the difference?
AmigaOS 3.x: Red
Info: Intuition as main GUI. Option
for MUI3.8 etc.
Hardware: Amiga 500 to Amiga 4000.
You can upgrade these classic Amiga
machines with PPC and get PPC support
through WarpOS or PowerUP. You can
also buy PCI upgrading kits at Elbox
today. Giving classic Amiga computers
access to PCI graphic cards, sound
cards and Ethernet cards etc.
More info: You can build up your
Classic Amiga a lot. Mainly done as a
hobby thing.
68k compatibility? YES
note: If you have an Amiga with AGA.
You should get whdload. This makes it
easy to run games from your HD.
Classic Amiga is the best buy if you
want full 68k compatibility in all
directions.
AmigaOS 4: Red
Info: ReAction as main GUI. Option
for MUI3.9 etc.
Hardware: Runs on Classic Amiga with
PPC, Eyetech AmigaOne and MicroA1,
Acube sam440ep boards and on Pegasos
II.
More info: TBA
68k compatibility? YES
note: Only AmigaOS 68k programs
works. No programs which depend on
the classic Amiga custom chipset will
work.
MorphOS: Blue
Info: MUI4 as main GUI. Option for
ReAction compatibility through
ClassAct
Hardware: Runs on Classic Amiga with
PPC, Pegasos, Pegasos II and Efika,
More info: MorphOS runs fine on
Classic Amiga and on Efika. You need
at least 64MB of RAM to make it run
and be useful. When using Efika etc.
Your limited to 91MB Free RAM after
boot. You can still use MorphOS for
lots of stuff like surfing, irc, ftp
and gaming!
68k compatibility? YES
note: Only AmigaOS 68k programs
works. No programs which depend on
the classic Amiga custom chipset will
work. You also have EUAE ported to
MorphOS, so you can play 68k Amiga
games.
AROS: Black
Info: Zune as main GUI. AROS is Open
Source.
Hardware: Runs on x86 Intel and
PowerPC.
More info: You will need a PCI-based
PC-AT (based on i486 or later) with
PS/2 or USB mouse, PS/2, AT or USB
keyboard, IDE hard disk and CD-ROM on
parallel ATA or SATA configured in
legacy mode, and an (S)VGA video card
and monitor. At least 24 MB of RAM is
required. A VESA-compliant VGA card
is recommended. There are generic
2D-accelerated drivers (HIDDs) for
some ATI and nVidia cards.
68k compatibility? YES
note: 68k compatibility is via uae -
you need to have AMIGA ROMS and
AmigaOS system for it. the work for
an AROS kickstart and compatible free
ROM has been started by Greg "bheron"
casamento some time ago. This 68k
compatibility is not the same as on
AmigaOS 4 or on MorphOS
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