And more is covered here.
WarpUP was abandoned later on (obviously because everyone could see it was such a mess to begin with, and no way could be used for any basis of future AmigaOS. Also, for some incomprehensible reason it was mostly written in assembler, thus make it quite impossible to work with). It was never used as any base for future AmigaOS.
On the other hand the concepts and ideas of PowerUP (as laid out in ppc.library) were used as basis when designing MorphOS. The very first MorphOS releases could run old PowerUP apps transparently.
Haage&Partner did more damage than many of you can imagine. In addition to bringing forth WarpUP and concepts within, the also:
- Released AmigaOS 3.5 without promised TCP/IP stack (still advertised to have one!)
- Stole AmiTCP/IP for AmigaOS 3.9
- Mauled Amithlon
Interestingly Haage&Partner's license to develop and distribute AmigaOS is considered "terminated" (page 40).
@Piru: what you say here is very interesting. I (and i think many "middle-entry" Amiga users) always had the impression that WarpUp whas THE choice, the path to go, and that PowerUP was poorly and badly written, with less compatibility, more issues, etc etc
I think all mags in that era were also "fascinated" by Warp Up, and since in that times i had no Internet, my only source of information about Amiga were the Amiga mags (mostly british).
Now, after reading all this, i feel like breaking a "myth" that surrounded all this WarpUp vs. PowerUp thing...
I remember many moons ago, first time i installed PowerUp, i inmediately changed and installed WarpUp with PowerUp emulation...i wanted to try Wipeout2097 so so badly...never ever got trough main screen tough.
Never tried that again, and i switched back to "Classic Amiga with no PPC".
Later on, some ready-to-go packages did all what was difficult, easy so..i never tried all that stuff again (A real pity, since i own all PPC Amiga games that were released during that time and later). But, imagine, i had so so much trouble setting up T-Zero to play correctly in my machine...you can imagine what kind of Amiga user i am.. :lol:
Thanks for all the info and clarification
