Last week I used my MorphOS laptop (a PowerBook G4) almost
exclusively as my daily driver. For an operating system
with such a small community and so few developers working on
it, it is surprising how good it feels. With some excep-
tions, I was able to do everything I wanted to without much
pain.
The only bad experiences I had were related to web
browsing. And I believe the sites themselves are to blame
here. Seriously, the amount of bloat in some sites is
ridiculous. Reddit in particular is a joke. The amount of
crap you have to download, and the CPU power necessary to
load what is essentially a page of comments is absurd. I
can understand things like Youtube being slow, but Reddit?
Anyway, this good experience with MorphOS made me want
to connect to the network with my Amiga 1200. For things
like SDF and downloading stuff from Aminet my 030 machine
should be enough. The Amiga has a PCMCIA expansion slot
which makes it relatively easy to connect to the internet,
as long as you have a supported card.
I have a NE2000 compatible card that should work, but
it doesn't. My machine either freezes on boot or complains
with a cryptic error message depending on the device I use
(cnet/cnet16).
I bought an additional Ovislink that didn't work
either. Being positive, the Ovislink card was pretty cheap
(10 euros), and I may be able to make it work in the future
-- I believe the problem is in the dongle -- In any case,
I'll probably look for another compatible card. I really
want to put my Amiga online.
