User:Skamecrazy123/WarpUP (PowerUP/WarpUP conflict)

Conflict between PowerUP and WarpUP
When Haage & Partner released WarpUP to the general public, it provoked a strong response from Wolf Dietrich, the general manager for phase5.

In the statement, Dietrich said that the functionality that WarpUP claimed to provide was not as special as Haage & Partner claimed it to be, stating that it was just normal functionality provided by the PowerUP software, as well as denying the claim that WarpUP was quicker than PowerUP software (Dietrich claimed that the only reason that WarpUP may have been quicker was if StormC had been used to compile a PowerUP program). He also stated that WarpUP was not compatible with PowerUP and, due to the fact that the hardware abstraction layer was obtained by reengineering the phase5 software, it was highly unlikely that it would work with different releases of PowerUP software.

He also went on to state that, because WarpUP could not fulfill the demands of the professional developer due to its proprietary software concept, developers would not use it. Phase5 also recommended not to use WarpUP, as it wasted most of the performance of the PowerUP chip set. To end, Dietrich stated that, despite the fact that Phase5 had provided Haage & Partner with the necessary developer systems and information needed to develop compatible software and tools, Haage & Partner used said information to create a replacement for PowerUP that attempted to trash the software development that Phase5 had worked hard on. They said that they would also drop support for Haage & Partner as a PowerUP developer.