Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12074 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
>> This thing is completely useless if all it can run is WarpOS software or
>> PowerUP software. Can it even run those?
> There are several reasons why it can not:
> 1) Both WarpOS and PowerUP are proprietary. Much of WOS is in powerpc assembly,
> making it harder to work with it even if they could obtain the source code
> 2) The FPU issue isn't specific to the OS or kernel being run. The CPU just doesn't
> implement the Power ISA category FPU. You cannot execute any regular
> PowerPC FPU code on it.
From the current status update:
"Both delevopers [...] brought along Samo Jordan, original developer of the WarpOS/WarpUP! software. Current status is:
[...]
- Active talks with Hyperion for supporting AmigaOS4.x.
[...]
- Support for WarpUp/WarpOS through support pledged by the original author"
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=696776
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showpost.php?p=528160