As usual, the MorphOS team doesn’t tell you when the new release will come. Sometimes, the release of the SDK beforehand will let you know when it is close but it has been some months now.
However, there are some rumors running about now for the next 3.10 release:
The Amiga x5000 hardware is the high-end and is on sale now. Unfortunately, it’s going to cost you a lot. Here in America, the board alone is about $1500USD and the full system about $2000.
For those that want real PPC hardware, and can’t find a used system on Amibay, there is a board that has been mentioned here before called the Tabor (A1222), a collaboration between A-EON (makers of x1000 and x5000) and Acube (creators of the SAM 440/460 line).
Here’s a documentary, posted in two parts on Youtube, that Amiga fans should probably watch:
Part 1 – 51 minutes
Part 2 – 1 hour, 3 minutes
Okay, so I admit that I was thinking about doing something like this with an old Amiga tank mouse to be used with an emulated system (this would involve an Amiga 500 case with a modern hardware inside, running Amithlon or MorphOS).
I think this pcb hardware update for old Amiga Mice would work nicely with this.
Store link –> here <–
Information about this project has been floating around Amiga-circles for a while now but there is yet-another great and motivated Amiga user that is good with hardware design that has decided to make his own accelerator. Since Amiga 500 is one of those machines that don’t have a lot of options (well, if you get the ACA500, you can add an amiga 1200 accelerator and there is also the Vampire 500 coming), but the more the better!
About every week, he will post an update video on his findings and experiments. My congratulations to his hard work.
Great news for those that use their Amigas for webbrowsing.
See the main page –> here <–
While they have built it for OS3.x and OS4.x, the source is available for those willing to build it for MorphOS, AROS, Amithlon, etc (if they can't get the emulated version working). It's on the website.
Some features:
So, I talked about this one in the past but there was an enterprising Amiga user that created his own RTG video card for his Amiga 2000 due to the rarity and crazy prices of the few still on the market. It’s called the MNT VA2000 and is a Zorro II card that can work in Zorro III machines.
Batch #2 is now taking pre-orders: Pre-order page link
Here’s a link to the drivers: Drivers link
Here’s a video of the Vampire 500 board on an Amiga 500, surfing the web with the latest Netsurf 3.6 by Arti (there is another Netsurf 3.6 by Chris, author of the OS4.x version of Netsurf)
It appears that Hyperion has made enough progress on OS4.1 for X5000 to make an announcement. See this –> link <—.
This appears to be just enough to get the OS working on the X5000. There is no mention of extended features, as there was also an announcement that a full update for all OS4.1FE users will be available by the end of the year. Let’s hope that happens.
So, I saw this video from a link about the latest version of Netsurf 3.6 (the 68k SDL version found –> here <–). I’m a fan of this browser and encourage everyone with a classic machine to try it out.
The test video shows the author using this on an Amiga 500 that has the Vampire 2 accelerator and a plipbox (ethernet over parallel port).