Warp OS - Legacy

Legacy

The bitter infighting in the Amiga community over the two kernels, while brief, was to produce a rift that would eventually culminate in the split between AmigaOS and MorphOS, with the majority of WarpOS and PowerUP developers switching either new AmigaOS implementation respectively.

WarpOS was intended to be used as a basis for AmigaOS 4 but Haage & Partner dropped the project when their "AmigaOS 4 PPC" contract was cancelled by Amiga, Inc. in 2000. When Hyperion Entertainment took over the project they originally had the same idea, but it was later admitted by their developers that it proved very little use in modernising the OS, being written wholly in non-annotated machine code assembler.

The choice of WarpOS over its rival proved to be a Pyrrhic victory, as the standards it had developed around - namely EHF and PowerOpen - were to be wholly abandoned in later development of AmigaOS and its clones. The dual CPU model was not revisited.

AmigaOS 4 dropped initial scant support for WarpOS, with Hyperion Entertainment preferring to port its WarpOS games to the new OS rather than attempt to implement it. MorphOS is more compatible and can run both WarpOS and PowerUP applications natively using API wrapping, despite the differences in ABI.