PPC installation

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Hmmmm, this will feel more like a downgrade once you set everything up. 68k is pretty much always incharge of the OS, so going from 060 to 040 will not be too pretty.

Don't forget to install BPPCFix or if you are running BlizKick then BPPCFix module, as you must terminate the built-in powerup library that conflicts with WarpOS.

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Nope, not me. :-) I think that you bought the card from a fellow in Ottawa, IIRC of the last local PPC auctions that I've spotted.

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;-)

BPPC card comes with a built in PPC library in its flashrom. This library is called PowerUP. Phase 5 originally pushed it as the PPC solution for OS3.x, however there was an alternative solution available shortly after, called WarpUP (or WarpOS). In order to make it difficult for the competition to succeed, I guess Phase 5 decided to make the library built-in, so that WarpUP wouldn't work if you tried to install it. A solution like BPPCFix kills the built-in PowerUP kernel and let's you install WarpUP as your PPC choice. WarpUP seems to be more popular than PowerUP and I believe it's the official OS3.9 PPC kernel.

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@Piru:

Thanks for the info. Always useful to read some insider info from a quality programmer such as yourself. :pint:

One thing is for sure though, there were a lot of Usenet wars between PUP and WOS supporters, back in the day, and those fights were pretty much to the same extent similar to the more recent OS4.0 and MOS bickerings. :-)