Haage & Partner PPC Amiga
Developer: Haage & Partner
Announced: October 1999 |
After the cancellation of the Amiga MCC in the latter half of
1999, the Classic Amiga once again became the primary focus of
development. After some negotiation with Gateway, Haage &
Partner announced plans to port the AmigaOS to the IBM POP
specification. Their plans were similar to previous announcements
made in 1988 to develop a PPC-based
Amiga for Gateway. The only difference was that H&P would
develop the OS alone, without support for Phase 5 (whom were a few
months away from liquidation) or Gateway. At the time it was
indicated a working version would be available/demonstrated by the
fourth quarter of 2000.
As expected, the 68k CPU would be emulated in software. There
were also plans by COSA to open
source certain portions of the Amiga OS for development and
incorporation into other projects. The purchase of all rights to
the Amiga by Amino Developments ended H&P's plans to solely
develop the OS. The PPC OS path was pursued in 2001 by a joint
project, developed between Amiga Inc, Hyperion and Eyetech.
| Operating System |
Amiga OS 4.0 |
| Developer |
Haage & Partner |
| Main Processor |
PowerPC |
| 68k processor |
Emulated in software |
| Motherboard |
IBM POP design |
View a second image of
the POP motherboard (32k)
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Last Update: 15/12/2002
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