The G4 Cube actually looks really modern considering it’s age. I’ve always liked the style of it.

I just want to take a moment to acknowledge how forward-compatible the G4 Mac Cube was. This was a device that existed in the Pentium II era. (Just after the release of the PIII, actually, but the PII was still in its prime.) It can boot from USB, can drive 1920x1080 on the digital video interface, and supports 1.5GB of RAM. For the time, that was _insane._

Look at Eddie over there laughing.

An OS I've literally never heard of... Big thanks to you for bringing this to our attention!

Man, I didn't knew you have G4 Cube. One of the best looking apple computers, and still is a work of art

Michael is literally just ready to entertain his videos. He does a perfect job and I think everyone here does too. Keep up the good work!!;

I believe the old Amiga OSes used the "drawer" metaphor, and rendered them visually as drawers.

Right-click menus, the window controls, "drawers", "tools", "utilities" - those are all conventions from the *_Amiga_*

As a person who grew up on Windows and DOS i took the time a couple years ago to use WinUAE and related tools to formally educate myself in the ways of Amiga and Workbench and it was interesting as heck. Instead of just playing games i decided to try and set up a Workbench environment for document writing and image editing and general productivity work. The UI conventions of Amiga are quite interesting. I set up different emulated hardware with different workbench versions and even the modern versions. Totally worth taking a dive into sometime.

I'd like to see a review of Haiku OS, a modern rewriting of the (partly) closed source and defunct BeOS but completely free and open now, it supports 32 and 64 bit both, but the latter is supported better with modern hardware

You’ve inspired me to be obsessed with technology Microsoft and Apple and downloading or trying out obscure things that are tech related.I loved when you downloaded windows 3.1 in your iphone and when you downloaded the hard to find linux os for your ps2 and especially when you explained it he windows XP bliss background and the windows “welcome music” and when you checked out a windows 98 copy with information that wasn’t wiped out.people call me a nerd just because I like watching your videos.but those people don’t know that the KZfaqr I watch is a inspiration to me.whenever I see something old like a windows 95 98 xp or vista guide book or floppy disks or old wires or old keyboards mouses or computer screens I think about your content…and I also get very excited and amused! Keep up the good content! 👍

Lots of definitely AmigaOS flavoured things going on there, so by your confusion I'm guessing you were never an Amiga owner! You can use the Depth gadget in the top right to bring windows forward instead of double clicking - I wish Windows allowed you to keep active windows behind inactive ones as it's actually pretty useful. The right click for menus is a hangover from when the Amiga had multiple "screens"; grabbing the title bar at the top allowed you to drag the entire screen down to reveal additional ones behind it (some applications required their own screen because they wanted to run in a specific resolution/colour depth) - sort of a proto virtual desktop, I guess. Other things I spotted are the WBStartup folder, the virtual device assigns (S:, LIBS:, T:, ENV:, etc.), a RAM disk, and the separation of "System" and "Work" drives.

I'm very pleased that you kept in the screen-res problem and also the issue locating the installer. You've kept it real-world and very relatable. Nice one.

I love the frutiger aero look and feel of the OS, like the style is really nice, a good match for the mac g4

Kind of ridiculous such an extremely niche OS is closed source and proprietary. All the dev is doing is further narrowing the amount of people who can or will use. I'd bet they'd make even more money just taking donations. And after all, for the $70 price, you can certainly buy hardware that is far beyond 2006 power, so the price also completely defeats the purpose.

I work on the modern IBM POWER CPUs, really cool to see that there's still people out there creating software for the consumer versions!

Literally saw this at the perfect time. Love this channel!

Absolutely love these obscure non-mainstream reviews 💪🙏

Your videos are one of the best for sitting back and relaxing thank you for your great work 💙

8:54 There are many Poles in the development team list, I am proud of my country

it's great to see MorphOS still getting some love!

good to see people are still making operating systems like this for old machines

I ran MorphOS on my eMac for a while about ten years ago and one of the biggest things I remember is not being able to move windows off of the screen. It’s such a little thing and yet it’s one of those design decisions that’s just a thorn in your side the entire time you use it.

I think I would rather try to use Debian 8 than pay for this software and have it be locked to a specific system. Thanks for another great video!

I just had a wild idea… What if the developers port this to the Wii U? It is powered by the PowerPC architecture as well, so porting it could be easy.

I love the icons and design of this OS.

This OS makes a G5 usable again. I remember trying this a few years back and being fairly impressed. It's really quick if you also replace the harddrive with a SSD. It's a fairly small operating system as it is so it loads very fast for what it is and the G5 in mine was hardly taxed doing basic stuff. But given the obvious limitations I still ponder the value of paying $79 bucks for it. A modern lixux distro on x86 hardware will likely pull ahead. That said I would be excited to see my G5 still going at it.

Awesome video, Michael!

Good content as always keep it up.

Great, makes me want to double boot into Linex again (4years vacation ) Just spent 2 days getting TPM setup on one of my vintage PCs Loved the tour/Thanks

This was very interesting. I've got 2 PowerMac G4s that I love to keep using however I can.

MorphOS only has a limited subset of Mac Hardware that it actually supports. the subscripts attached to each entry will show the exact specific configurations i.e. only specific PowerMac G5 configurations are supported generally only Macs with Radeon graphics hardware.

First time I'm early in a MJD video. Nice video!

I am using this on my dual Powermac G5. It’s been running flawless and very dependable. I can’t say the same for any supposedly compatible Linux or BSD which have been exceedingly difficult to get running. Despite the fact that it is not multiprocessor aware it is surprisingly snappy.

never seen these before but sound modern & high-quality.

That Ubuntu screen this opened on brings back a flood of nostalgia.

that G4 cube reminds me so much of the NeXTcube. you should probably do a video on that guy if you haven’t already

michael wrote "It's morphin' time." in the channel description and then morphed all over it greatest moment in youtube history imo

Since it runs on PowerPC hardware, I wonder if you can run it on the Wii or Wii U, as they also use PowerPC, plus it would be on brand for the channel.

This thing is freaking FAST O.S. wise. Tough bone to chew in some configurations but definitely worth it!

Love this OS! I actually bought a rare Power Mac G5 powerpc quad core to run it, and the courier sent it to me in fuc*ing pieces. I still have nightmares about it.

Morph is interesting in that it's not the only OS for this hardware, not including Linux. I don't know too much about these things but I do know that any and all AmigaOS environment will be the most gorgeous looking retro (now) interface you will ever see. And either the easiest OS to use or the most obstructive, depending on who you ask. And I'm very much in the latter camp! I notice you didn't fully notice how Workbench (early AmigaOS) menu bar buttons work for example. And that's just for starters. Yes, all apps are (sort of) in one place and libraries and system files can just be dragged and dropped but holy moly is it opaque and unintuitive in every other way IMHO. But it does have icons of any and differing at once sizes. and dude, when you click on them they change into a secondary icon AND a third when you open it. And that's all that really matters. Yeah, you should definitely check out more Amiga stuff.

The styling of this reminds me of my earliest memories with Windows XP.

Top right most button on ANY window to switch its "stacking" position, as on the original Amiga for reference.

Enjoyed the video, found your channel recently and have been enjoying the content. Also. My boyfriend’s cat is named Morpheus, and we call him Morph all the time lol. I’m sure my partner will love knowing there’s an OS ironically with the same name we call our cat.

Morphos is an Amiga-like OS. Its written by a splinter of AmigaOS developers who had enough of the ownership and licensing in-fighting of Amiga IP. "Drawers" comes from the Amiga Workbench (analogous to the Windows Desktop and its folders). In the Amiga environment you "do work" on your "workbench", and just like a real bench you work on, you can lay out documents, files and tools or utilities on the bench for quick access, but you can neatly store them in drawers, like you would if you had a desk with drawers that you put stuff in. It actually makes more sense than folders which in the real world usually only hold documents or pictures. Morphos may not have the commercial rights to use "drawers" icons. Icons can be of different size, have a non-selected image and selected image creating an animation when clicked to select them and again to open or run them, giving the user feedback about what they have done on screen. As for the right click menu bar, this was because the Amiga could pre-emptivley multi-task (in 1985!) and each program could open its own "screen" with its own screen resolution and color depth, its own fonts, its own windows (think early virtual desktops), which you could drag down to view or keep running but completely hidden in the background. The menu bar tells you the name of the software running in that screen without the clutter of the menu options. Extremely useful in the days of 640x480 screens. Windows can't be dragged off screen but you could have "screens" that EXCEED the actual monitor resolution and these could be viewed by pushing the mouse pointer against the edge of the monitor Another feature of Amigaos/morphos that I miss in Windows is being able to work in a window that isn't the front most one. Once you use it, you'll see just how infuriating it is to be without it. When you combine the ability of software to open its own screen, have other software run in the background in their *own* screen, happily pre-emptively multi-tasking away, plus the ability to work in a window that is not the front most, you find you don't need to drag windows off screen because there is much less screen clutter. Combine all of the above with a way for multi-tasking programs to automatically communicate with one another through a scripting language (Arexx) and that is why Amiga OS was 10 years ahead of Windows and even further than MacOS.

You have druaga1 and LGR vibes at the same time. Good stuff!

I love the video one thing I want to note is I personally think the G4 Cube is one of the worst PPC Macs to try this on, I would highly recommend trying it on a G5, I have a G5 that runs web browsing a lot more stable on OSX 10.5, I think you'd have much better luck with a G5 but I really appreciate the video! keep up the weird tech work!

Interesting that there are still people with a need for such software, I would like to play around with that, though I've got no PowerPC based system. Thanks for making this video!

that dell monitor is mint. I've only seen them in black from that era.

michaelmjd vids are great, such a good vibe. they're like chicken noodle soup.

I kind of wonder what the business application is for this. Generally the reason companies keep old machines around is because they have a piece of software on them that _has_ to run on an old OS. So changing the OS on the old machine completely defeats the purpose of using that old machine. I was interested in this for an old Mac I have just sitting around, but since old computer hardware just can't handle modern websites, it doesn't look like this really has anything to offer over the old version of macOS already on the computer.

I like the user interface design.

Дуже гарна операційна система. Розробники гарно постаралися

6:51 That's how it worked on Amiga. The top menu was accessed by right clicking on it :)

G4 "Cube": uses PowerPC Game"Cube": uses PowerPC

Amiga On a PowerPC Mac. This is really great if you don’t have a amiga computer.

Hey, i asked in another video, but. What windows 98 audio drivers do you use?

12:55 from a usability interface perspective, those tiers are called "breadcrumbs".

Thank you for this video. Amiga was my first computer and back in the day Workbench was awesome. However, they say that this MorpOS is continuation of it but everything I saw is painful. Starting from the hardware limitations to the issues and sluggisness of the browsing which is a must in modern day computing. It is really sad when they pride themselves as continuation of Amiga and yet everything here is slow and slugish.

Years ago I installed it on a PPC Mac Mini G4, it was able to play youtube at the time

3 or so years back I was trying to score a G5 "cheesegrater" mac that I wanted to try MorphOS & some other PPC operating systems on.

What is the model of your monitor, because I see that a very nice 4: 3 position?

What Dell monitor model is that? Looks like a E176/77/78FP or E170S, but have never seen a all silver one before.

Interesting concept

I used to have an Amiga 1000. With extended memory. I played with AmigaBasic a lot. It would need beefing up a hell of a lot to be useful today. I paid $1000 for one meg of memory. Still I was keen in those days. It was a huge step up from the Commodore 64.

Hey man, I’m working on a game that takes place in the late 90’s to Early 00’s. Is there any tech you could recommend looking into for design inspiration? Just saw your video on the Monorail, but was wondering if there was any tech you’d recommend?

Double clicking windows to bring them to front is actually very useful: clicking once makes it the active window and you can do things in that window eg edit text without the active window hiding the top one. Once you use it, you wish Windows had it.

Awesome!

MorbOS? Truly one of the operating systems of all time

I like that they give you 2 hours. You can decide if you like it and then pay for it (even before 2 hours is up).

Yessss another video 📹 😍

If I didnt have to buy it 4 times I'd have it installed in a heartbeat on my PPC systems.

Great OS, you can drag windows off the screen by going to iprefs in system/prefs. Very fast and responsive, on a high end G5 with fast video, you can play stuff well. Crazy because MacOS can't do half that MOS does. MorphOS is highly regarded and is considered the best Amiga like OS.

i like how that monitor almost matches the mac... then i realized i have a dell monitor attached to my g4.... we should make this a thing

What I've wanted to know for years is why PowerPC stopped being a thing. Apple's suppliers were having delays meeting performance demands, but other PowerPC suppliers had basically already delivered and all were completely sideblinded by Apple. After Apple bailed PowerPC continued to be a high performance system.

I just ❤ morphOS

Was wondering if this would work on OpenPower boards and could you dual boot a *BSD or Linux? Wish the updated browser that was downloaded was shown. Was wondering if it would have been optimized... Great video. Never heard of MorphOS before. Thank you for sharing...

Nice video 😎

Really interesting! I’m surprised how responsive everything is!

I got a question is it possible to put the Nickelodeon slime theme from windows xp on windows 10 because I don’t wanna break my gpd win3 if It don’t work

This looks like a great computer for me:)

Really nice.

Thanks for MOS review, its still active and going AMD64 transition

MorphOS looks like it has some potential to breath life into my older computers where running MacOS doesn't give me a lot of support, like HTTPS in browsers. I may give it a look. There is also Ubuntu MATE which I first heard about for PowerPC.

Great video. Would be interesting to see you take a closer look at the applications that come with the OS. Looks like they're all custom-made for MorphOS, so it's almost a parallel universe compared to the Win/Mac/Linux software that we use on the regular.

I really wanted to try morph os but i can't my imac G5 power supplies gived up

ActionRetro would love this.

What usable software/applications exist for the OS if one is to spend $79 to buy it. Examples like a modern web broswer and office suite to start with?

Entertaining video. I am just wondering what is the practical use of such an operating system? I mean why would you wanna use your G4 if it wasn’t for the original operating system…

I miss my Amiga 4000

IBM’s System P Main Frame is a PowerPC based machine but IBM has taken this architecture so far it’s nothing like any of the machines listed above. In fact IBM now whole owns this architecture. In the beginning is was a consortium of many companies. But it would be an interesting experiment to try to get this OS to run either on the bare iron or in a partition. Ricky from IBM

gives hardware acceleration to browser video playback, i.e youtube, right?

what Dell display model you have there?

Have you considered doing a video on WSL 2? It's really cool running GUI Linux programs on Windows

Interesting OS. Too bad it's not compatible with my iMac G3... anyway, what is the use case for people to use old PowerPC and install this OS (other than just having fun with it)?

Great video, I have a suggestion: can you do when you get the time for it a video about the developpement of Windows 2000 ?

MJD finally flirts with Amiga? (sort of) Awesome!

aeshetic of the os screams frutiger aero. absolutely nostalgic lol

I got a couple G4 machines. I have ended up wondering what to do with them though.