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New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« on: February 24, 2003, 05:40:23 AM »
MorphZone Opens!

MorphZone (http://www.morphzone.org) is the new community portal for MorphOS users; including the MWD (Morph Web Directory), in-depth articles, forums, reviews, and more!  MorphZone membership is free, as our services are geared to help cultivate the MorphOS community towards the future.

While many sections of MorphZone are currently under construction, the staff and moderaters have deemed that we can announce the opening of our forums.  Beyond the expected forums, MorphZone's forums include several private forums, including forums for "the scene" and "Phoenix."  There is also a special forum called "Generator," which will see special posts from people associated with Genesi to answer user's questions (these times will usually be announced a week or so in advance).

Soon, MorphZone will have an Ambient/Desktop contest, with the winners receiving a prize and their screen-grab will be published on several "partner" sites.  Registered users can also adjust the look of MorphZone by selecting a different theme in their user-profile.  These themes will allow MorphZone members to adjust the look and feel of MorphZone according to the browser that they are using at the time.  MorphZone also maintains a news-feed from MorphOS-News.de to help keep pace with the world around us (thanks www.morphos-news.de).  MorphZone.org promises to be a leap forward for the MorphOS community.

Finally, MorphZone wouldn't have been possible without the help of many friends, associates, and the community itself.  The webmasters of MorphZone would like to thank the following people, institutions, and groups:  Wayne Hunt (Amiga.org), Bill Buck, Raquel Velasco, MorphOS-News.de, VaporWare, #MorphOS on ARCNet, Jobbo, Phoenix, Hooligan, and many others.

Sincerely,
Targhan

http://www.morphzone.org

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Targhan
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2003, 05:43:49 AM »
Yes, cultivate the MorphOS community by gutting the Amiga community.  :-D
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2003, 06:09:13 AM »
The Amiga community has already been gutted by Windows, Mac and Linux markets, including UAE emulators running on those platforms..
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2003, 06:55:28 AM »
@CyberViking2000

You confuse MorphOS with AmigaInc's AmigaDE, which contractually prevents those developers from working on AmigaOS stuff without express permission from Amiga Inc.  (To the best of my knowledge that is).
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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2003, 07:16:55 AM »
now now people, lets not have another flame fest please. ;-)
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2003, 07:58:15 AM »
Nicely said jumpship :-)

This site looks nice, but for all users of IE who go there, you don't see the links before you go over with your mouse. You can select another "theme" with wchich you select a different look of the site! :-D
(With Voyager or IBrowse you don't have this problem though :-D :-D)

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2003, 08:14:00 AM »
Needs some work, like in the area with the black text on black or dark background.
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2003, 08:14:10 AM »
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including UAE emulators running on those platforms..

That statement doesn’t hold true for some of the cases. Note that the Amiga Forever package is a licensed product from Amiga Inc.
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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2003, 08:17:14 AM »
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You confuse MorphOS with AmigaInc's AmigaDE, which contractually prevents those developers from working on AmigaOS stuff without express permission from Amiga Inc. (To the best of my knowledge that is).

Any proof of this?
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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2003, 09:12:40 AM »
It has to be said, those MorphOS butterflies are beautiful. We need something like this for the AmigaOS, an animal which represents the word Amiga..uhm..Yes, I've got it: a beaver!  ;-)  :lol:  :-D
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2003, 09:51:58 AM »
:-D
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2003, 10:01:15 AM »
If anyone needed evidence to say Genesi wants to have their cake and eat it, this is it. Their userbase want the right to call themselves Amigans, and yet at the same time partition themselves away from the rest of the community.

Well, they can't. Pick one: become Yet Another Obscure OS With Virtually No Users (TM) or stay in the Amiga circles. It's their choice.
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2003, 10:35:39 AM »
Hello KennyR,

I think you're in minority saying this.
The last few weeks (months??) I've read here more like:

Let them have their own site and discuss things and leave us alone.

(to simply say this. Oh, don't ask me for links, just check those heated topics about AOS4 vs MorphOS.
Ofcourse there were only a few people saying these kinds of stuff, but the majority didn't say anything)

For me personally: I like Amiga.Org and especially because there are so many people with different kinds of hardware visiting this site (even people who don't own Amiga's! :-D).
I took the step of just starting the thread of Pegasos, and look, it did it ok :-)
I would love to see this going on with OS4 and AROS and MophOS, etc, etc. on this site.

On the other hand it isn´t bad for a site where there is more specifically stuff for MorphOS about problems and solutions written by it's users.
I think when AOS4 will become available for everybody  You'll see Amiga.Org more transformed to a faq for AOS4 problems.
I don't think this is bad either :-)

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2003, 10:51:10 AM »
From the bottom news item over there, "Keep up the great work targhan!" I guess this means you do the work over there as well... Explains the layout being for the most part *very* similar (disregarding the skins) Being a webmaster there and here might raise a few eyebrows. I say this as the sites would normally be seen as competing for the same community members.

Teotwin raises an eyebrow...
 

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Re: New MorphOS Website: MorphZone
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2003, 11:00:30 AM »
Good Job!  Great site!  Thank you!

Why not two sites, two user groups, etc.

Pick BOTH!

More is better in this case.

:-D

R&B  :-)