Hezké datum 10/10/10 se stává velmi důležitým milníkem v historii operačního systému MorphOS. 10.10.10 v 10:10 vydává MorphOS Team novou verzi MorphOS 2.6, která mimojiné přináší podporu hned 9 modelů Apple Power Mac G4 počítačů! Narozdíl od posledních MorphOS platforem - EFIKA 5200B (od MorphOS 2.0), Mac Mini G4 (od MorphOS 2.4), eMac G4 1.25 GHz (od MorphOS 2.5) se nyní jedná o opravdu pořádný nášup nově podporovaného hardware pro MorphOS a opomenuta by neměla být ani velká rozšiřitelnost Apple PowerMac G4 platformy. Ať už se jedná o AGP, několik PCI/IDE/RAM slotů opět ve stylu originální Genesi/bPlan PegasosPPC I a II platformy, tak dále pro Power Macy jsou k dispozici i různá zajímavá rozšíření od třetích stran - např. CPU karty s novějšími PowerPC G4 procesory a na frekvencích originálně až 1,8 GHz (taktovatelných i na 2,1 GHz). Rozhodně nastává velká éra testování MorphOS 2.6 na všemožných Power Mac G4 konfiguracích a určitě se můžeme těšit i na nové MorphOS uživatele.
Seznam nových platforem podporovaných systémem MorphOS 2.6:
ID systému - Název systému - (Model)
1) PowerMac3,1 - Power Macintosh G4 - (AGP-Graphics)
2) PowerMac3,2 - Power Macintosh G4 - (AGP-Graphics)
3) PowerMac3,3 - Power Macintosh G4 - (Gigabit Ethernet)
4) PowerMac3,4 - Power Macintosh G4 - (Digital Audio)
5) PowerMac3,5 - Power Macintosh G4 - (Quick Silver)
6) PowerMac3,5 - Power Macintosh G4 - (Quick Silver 2002)
7) PowerMac3,6 - Power Macintosh G4 - (Mirrored Drive Doors)
8) PowerMac3,6 - Power Macintosh G4 - (FW 800)
9) PowerMac3,6 - Power Macintosh G4 - (Mirrored Drive Doors 2003)
Interní zvuk je podporován pouze u 6 novějších modelů PowerMac3,4 - 3,5 - 3,6 s použitím AppleI2S AHI ovladače. Pro starší modely 3,1 - 3,2 - 3,3 je možné použít pro MorphOS (i Mac OS X) PCI zvukovou kartu, např. Soundblaster Live!
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX/Titanium grafické karty, které lze nalézt v některých PowerMac3,x modelech, nejsou podporovány.
Rozšíření podpory grafických karet ATI:
Nově je podporována historická grafická karta ATI Rage128Pro, která byla dodávána ke starým Power Macům.
Byla přidána také podpora Radeon9600XT/Pro a Radeon9700Pro do Radeon ovladače (avšak pouze pro 2D).
Další změny:
Vylepšený Intuition - nová optimalizovaná a konfigurovatelná lišta (Title.sbar), dvouklik na hodiny otevře nastavení hodin (Clock.sbar), ...
Do lokalizace přibyla podpora chorvatštiny, albánštiny, turečtiny a islandštiny. Byly aktualizovány stávající překlady včetně češtiny.
Byly opraveny některé problémy s rychlostí sungem síťového ovladače pro Mac Mini.
Byla zlepšena automatické detekce Mac HFS boot oddílu při instalaci/aktualizaci MorphOS.
Integrované Reggae pro multimediální podporu nyní podporuje 64-bit souborový systém.
A mnoho dalších, více v originálním seznamu - viz níže v seznamu podle ReleaseNotes na MorphOS CD nebo zde [6] na stránkách MorphOS Teamu.
Součástí MorphOS 2.6 je i nová verze webového prohlížeče OWB 1.10.
MorphOS 2.6 ke stažení:
Seznam změn v MorphOS 2.6 - kompletní poznámky k vydání:
Release 2.6 Change Log
======================
© 2010 MorphOS Development Team
All Rights Reserved.
10. October 2010
Release 2.6 boot.img Changes
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Following is a (probably incomplete) list of changes made between the 2.5 and 2.6 release of MorphOS to the ROM (boot.img) based components.
Quark and Related Modules
o PowerMac G4 support, targeting following models:
System ID System Name Model
----------- ------------------ -------------------------
PowerMac3,1 Power Macintosh G4 (AGP-Graphics)
PowerMac3,2 Power Macintosh G4 (AGP-Graphics)
PowerMac3,3 Power Macintosh G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)
PowerMac3,4 Power Macintosh G4 (Digital Audio)
PowerMac3,5 Power Macintosh G4 (Quick Silver)
Power Macintosh G4 (Quick Silver 2002)
PowerMac3,6 Power Macintosh G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors)
Power Macintosh G4 (FW 800)
Power Macintosh G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors 2003)
Currently, audio is only supported for PowerMac3,4 to 3,6 models using the AppleI2S AHI driver.
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX/Titanium cards found in some PowerMac3,x models are not supported.
BootMenu
o Fixed to work on machines that wouldn't display a 640x480@60Hz screen mode
CDRive
o CDDA audio track support fixes
o Fixed wrong command length for SCSI READ12
DOS
o Better volume unmount support
Gadtools
o Better input data sanity checks to workaround bugs in CandyFactoryPro
Intuition
o New, highly optimized and configurable Title.sbar
o Double-click on the Clock.sbar opens Time preferences
o Fixes in window resize routines on non-enhanced display screens
o Avoids flickering with the previous screen content when changing screens
o Volume.sbar is now default on all configurations, Eject.sbar is default on all Mac systems
o Fixed refresh problems with CandyFactoryPro
Layers
o Avoids showing the previous state of the screen when switching between screens
Mount
o Uses new dos.library unmount capabilities
o Removed unwanted debug output for MBR/Mac disks
Strap
o Improved booting off USB devices
USB
o Abort the network task instead of waiting for it to timeout when preferences are closed
Release 2.6 Disk Changes
------------------------
Following is a (probably incomplete) list of changes made to the disk based components of MorphOS. While not mentioned for every component translations
were updated for most of them. Also various cosmetic fixes were applied here and there.
Ambient
o Fixed not to spawn multiple drive info threads when changing preferences
o Added default MIME types for Nintendo (R) GBA and NDS ROM files, WHDLoad Slave files, RMVB files, EPUB files
o Fixed and completed detection rules for the OpenDocument file format family (OpenOffice)
Application/Elements
o Fixes in 'Key' window for 'Radioactivity' table
C/Installer
o Fixed a bug where files were skipped during the copying stage
C/Join
o Fixed to ignore directories rather than failing on them
o Fixed a bogus error message on read error
C/LibList
o Improved and more verbose output
o Added cmd arguments with pattern matching
C/LhA
o Refuse to add files with name + comment too long to fit in the old LhA headers
C/UnRAR
o Fixed a crash when extracting files containing non-ASCII characters
C/Version
o Set 'Workbench' environment variable to the correct version number
o CTRL-C can be used to abort the version scanning / md5sum calculation
C/XZ
o Fixed an overflow in string to integer conversion
o Updated the --list option, added --no-adjust
Classes/MUI/Cpumonitor.mcc
o Added support for external timers
Classes/MUI/Graph.mcc
o Fixed a bug where old samples reappeared on automatic range adjustment after the object's sample buffer was cleared
Classes/Multimedia (Reggae)
o Fixes in stereo samples support in 8svx demuxer
o Re-implemented file.stream, added 64 bit filesystem support
o Added MPEGAudio demuxer
o Fixes in audio.output
Classes/Screenbar/Eject.sbar
o Fixed a memory leak
o Minor cleanups
Classes/Screenbar/Volumecontrol.sbar
o Control window closes automatically when no longer needed
Devs/Audiomodes/EMU10kx
o Fixed driver initialization
o Integration of ac97mixer support, standard Mixer may be used with EMU10kx based cards now
Devs/Audiomodes/Macmini
o The driver has been replaced by AppleI2S
Devs/Audiomodes/AppleI2S [NEW]
New generic Apple I2S driver targeting Macmini, eMac & PowerMac3,4 to PowerMac3,6
Devs/Monitors/Radeon
o Added Radeon9600XT/Pro and Radeon9700Pro support to Radeon driver (2D only)
o DPMS control also affects some Apple related hardware & it's DVI ports now
o Really fix sync polarities this time (A change which should have made it into 2.5 but didn't). You may need to readjust/autoadjust your monitor settings once because some monitors rely on sync polarity to identify the mode setting
Devs/Monitors/Rage128Pro [NEW]
Newly added to provide out of the box compatibility with the legacy configuration of various early PowerMac 3,x models
Devs/Networks/sungem
o Added support for various PowerMac3,x flavours
o Fixed some speed issues for Mac mini
L/MUICON
o Moved the mcsr command out of MOSSYS:C
L/xadfs
o More resilient against potentially invalid data returned by XAD
Libs/bz2.library
o Upgraded to libbzip2 1.0.6
Libs/charsets.library
o Added CP1251 alias for Windows-1251 character set
Libs/lzma.library
o Disabled Subblock filter
Libs/pciids.library
o Updated with new ids
Libs/tinygl.library
o Fixed a memory-trash bug in cases when passed texture didn't meet hardware requirements
Libs/xadmaster.library
o Blacklisted a buggy xfd-xad 1.0 client
o Fixed the XZ client to set xfi_CrunchSize
o Added lzmaLoader 1.2 detection to LZMA client
o Fixed a bug in LhA client that would cause directory entries to be considered files
Libs/z.library
o Upgraded to zlib 1.2.5
Locale/Languages
o New languages descriptors for Croatian, Albanian, Turkish and Icelandic
MUI
o Avoids dragging tabs when they're initially activated (was frequent with OWB)
o Fixed broken cases in automatic window position snapshot handling
Prefs/Preferences
o Added a possibility to hide certain preference panes depending on their requirements
o Faster switching between prefs pages
Prefs/Serial.mprefs
o Only visible on Pegasos machines
Tools/IWizard
o Better Mac HFS Boot partition detection
Utilities/Multiview
o No longer displays MorphOS log files as hex
o Restores paths correctly when browsing documents, fixes navigations between multiple AmigaGuide files