MacMini G4 is excellent! make a tripple boot!

Native! OS9 => excellent machine. use a USB soundcard or an Amp because vol.-slider does not work
Native OSX => use 10.4.11 for best results (some ports require 10.4 and do not work with 10.3)
Native MOS => Morphos (Amiga OS /PPC RTG) is excellent...lot's and lot's of real great stuff (demoscene, games, emulation) is available.

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PS: Linux too if you like, but I would go for the three mentioned above.

dr.zeissler wrote on 2024-09-25, 10:11:

MacMini G4 is excellent! make a tripple boot! […]
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MacMini G4 is excellent! make a tripple boot!

Native! OS9 => excellent machine. use a USB soundcard or an Amp because vol.-slider does not work
Native OSX => use 10.4.11 for best results (some ports require 10.4 and do not work with 10.3)
Native MOS => Morphos (Amiga OS /PPC RTG) is excellent...lot's and lot's of real great stuff (demoscene, games, emulation) is available.

Doc:
PS: Linux too if you like, but I would go for the three mentioned above.

This screams SSD upgrade...
Does 10.5 have any real performance use? It's the max but do I need it?

Forget SSD, does not make a significant difference...go for the bigger hdd's.

Forget 10.5 because it makes no real advantage for the G4-Mini.
Software that requires 10.5 mostly requires more than R9200/32MB.
In short, not worth it.

dr.zeissler wrote on 2024-09-25, 11:49:

Forget 10.5 because it makes no real advantage for the G4-Mini.
Software that requires 10.5 mostly requires more than R9200/32MB.
In short, not worth it.

Ok, sounds fair.

I could up the cpu from 1.25 to 1.42, maybe some more performance is nice but again, is it worth it being retro oriented?
My answer is "no", but maybe a bump could be nice enough in the future.

Morph OS is interesting, amiga had a ton of games.

Keep in mind "MOS" Morphos is PPC/RTG not ECS/OCS/AGA, so custom chips are still emulated via "UAE" in "MOS",
so my advice forget the stuff that requires the custom-chips, use everything that came later on for amiga which
is PPC/RTG stuff. I would not advice you to install UAE in MOS.

look here what is available for MOS: https://www.morphos-storage.net
look for dualboot here: https://dreamolers.binaryriot.org/dualboot.pdf

but there is a tripple boot option with additional native OS9...but I could not find it at the moment.

ah I forgot I made the tripple-boot by myself: https://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?threads/8 … -5#post-1559926

There is also AROS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AROS_Research_Operating_System