| From: | Steffen Haeuser |
| Date: | 03 Dec 99 at 07:46:27 |
| Subject: | [warpup] Re: Test |
owner-warpup-list@haage-partner.com wrote :
Hi!
ow> Now, a real WarpUP question. Regarding Metabox's amiJoe cards, they had once
ow> said they would support WarpUP if "someone does the abstraction layer" or
ow> something like that. Later they said they would support running WarpUP
ow> software on amiJoe. This was all in email responses to me asking at their
ow> amijoe@metabox.de email address. Does this mean it is official support
ow> licensed from H&P, or are we going to see some sort of API wrapper along the
Not that i would know of. I think currently they are just telling this to keep
the emails on a lower level, thinking people will still buy the Boards due to
the fact they are G3 when available. I don't know if they now really plan to
support WarpUP or not.
ow> lines of PPClibemu to run PowerUP (yuck) software under WarpUP? I don't
Someone would need to code this. If they don't have money for a license i
don't think they will invest the time to make their engineers do something
about it. And don't forget, their engineers never coded with WarpUP before...
I personally think the only chance for M@tabox to support WarpUP is that they
license the stuff from H&P still. I doubt anything else will work out.
ow> 3d addon for my PicassoIV, and also have FusionPPC on order which I
ow> understand also uses WarpUP. I'm just hoping that amiJoe does have complete
Yes, that is the case.
ow> WarpUP support, as I'd really hate to see another kernel war which is silly
ow> at this point since the Amiga market is now so much smaller than the last
Yes. I still hope that H&P can resolve things with M@tabox. A third PPC Kernel
would be definitely crazy... and two PPC G3 Boards incompatible to each other
(M@tabox,Escena) even more....
Steffen