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Can I use PowerUP software under WarpOS?

For those who do not know what either of these are. PowerUP and WarpOS are basic operating systems that allow the Amiga to use PowerPC cards. The original software, PowerUP was released by Phase 5, the developers of the first PowerPC cards. However, this was rather slow implementing a number of Unix characteristics to the Amiga, such as the ELF format. WarpOS was released a few months later by Haage & Partner. It improved on task switching between the PowerPC and 68k, as well extending the Amiga HUNK format. Since then development of PowerUP has ground to a halt and WarpOS has been adopted as the standard for PowerPC on the Amiga. The only problem is that WarpOS and PowerUP software are incompatible with each other. The solution is to include PowerUP emulation for WarpOS. This was originally provided seperately but is now part of the WarpOS distribution. To run PowerUP software under WarpOS, download WarpOS 4 or later from Aminet.

 


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