I saw this on the gallery section and left speachless! Can MorphOs be installed and run on a mobile phone? Which type of Mobile do I need to do this? Give me some details!

thanks to the advanced system of the forum that presents similar topic I found this.

So I guess that there are no news and updates about Mobile MorphOS.

Amiga is a myth-driven world. Rule #1: You should only believe what you have seen with your own eyes.
MorphOS exists for Pegasos 1 and 2, thats it.

I know, MorphOS for Efika exists and I've seen/used it.
And I know MorphOS NG exists, I've seen/used it.
But here rule #2 is used: Nothing exists until it's
on your harddisk.

Rule #3: Two more weeks ...

That is MorphOS running on a MPC5200 based device from the "Automotive" section of Freescale called MobileGT. Also, please pay attention to the date of that post.

While not entirely correct you could perhaps think of the MobileGt as a predecessor to the Efika, at least in a Genesi/b-plan/MorphOS context. Genesi used the MobieGT to get things going at a very early stage (probably for testing, firmware development, and as you can see the MorphOS boots and runs on it as well) in what perhaps could be called their "just enough computing" effort. From this they developed their own board called "Efika" (meaning "efficient" in esperanto) that they got a Freescale "Best of Show" award for at a big Freescale event /Freescale Technology Forum, Florida, 2005). The Efika that was released to public was an updated version of the awardwinner, with a slightly modified board layout and a MPC5200B processor. MorphOS 2.0 will be publicly released for this one, that's what we all are waiting for right now.

And all this together is only the first, initial step in this "Just Enough Computing" and mobility direction. While the Efika is a fully functional board, I look at it more as a foundation for performance evaluation, OS development, application development (both SW and HW ones, and don't forget the "Efika Projects"), etc, than some kind of end-goal by itself. The beginning of the road trip rather then the destination. The *next* Efika will be when the fun begins for real. And with that I think a "Mobile MorphOS" could find a spot in the sun.

>From this they developed their own board called "Efika" (meaning "efficient" in esperanto) that they got a
>Freescale "Best of Show" award for at a big Freescale event /Freescale Technology Forum, Florida, 2005).
>The Efika that was released to public was an updated version of the awardwinner

You remember incorrectly, the award they got for the Pegasos Mediacenter - the Efika was only previewed there.

[ Edited by tarbos on 2007/12/16 12:16 ]

@tarbos

Yes of course you are right (well what can I say, it *was* a long time ago!)

Thanks for the clarification!

Quote:

your dream had a name. It was called Eclipsis, unfortunatly, this device was just a project.


[ Edited by serge on 2007/12/17 21:25 ]

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Apart from the Mobile MorphOS stuff I basically count Efika as the
ideal hardware background for our little (?) MorphOS. When 2.0 will be
released there will be a great chance to all of us to build an updayed
hardware machine based on Efika, taking as a fact that 2.0 would have
Efika support -somehting that is already a fact and correct me if I am
wrong-. When Efika was first released it was pointed as the little
sister of Pegasos but now it seems as the next (little ???) step for
MorphOS to run on up to dated systems.

I really enjoy my Peg and loVe MorphOS it is the faster and smoother
OS I have ever worked on but I would prefer to have it running on a
stand alone machine with updated hardware and not having to search on
e-bay to buy a simple memory card.

Mobile MorphOs is still a dream but that Eclipse name is very cool
isn't it? :)

By the way thnaks for all this usefull info about Efika :)


[ Edited by CountRaven on 2008/10/31 15:23 ]