PowerUP vs WarpOS.. what was it all about again?

[EvilGuy]

Another sad story. WarpOS had nothing better to offer. Only heavy propaganda and lies allowed it to become a "standard". A real shame, and the lesson wasn't even learned.

Yep, all it did was drive the only Amiga PowerPC manufacturer out of business. But then, this is the Amiga market and egos always end up f**king up a perfectly good product.

[EvilGuy]

The ultimate question to all these things would be: Why?

For me when I first bought my BPPC, (BVision was not around by that time I think) PPC programs were unstable, most of them seemed to run very fast but with constant occational pauses which was irritating. ( like one movie player and some unarchivers) When warpos was released performance dropped a little but the pauses went away. This is what I remember about Powerup vs Warpup. I was happy about warpup.

It was different for us CSPPC users; PowerUP was exceptionally stable. Then WarpOS came out with their claims and their software and things just got worse.

Not long after I gave up on the Amiga; I stopped my native PowerUP AROS port and packed everything away.

[EvilGuy]

Unfortunately their FUD campaign was quite effective. Some of it can be seen here.

Oh the memories!