ELBOX New Spider device

[Heiroglyph]

Nice. But Deneb is still better

Agreed.  IF you already have one.

Looks like Spider is the only card available.  Again

[Heiroglyph]

So are these cards still regular NEC 720101 USB cards with a modified PCI ID?

You'd think they would have to be or else the old cards would stop working.

Do these drivers wipe out your RDB if you have faulty memory, a rogue app writes out of bounds or you try to fake the PCI ID?

Edit: Looks like he edited in the same question while I was posting.

[Heiroglyph]

Has it been confirmed that it no longer has the RDB code in it?

That's my main worry and they would do well to put that officially to rest if they haven't already.

With Deneb gone, they are the only game in town, but I'd rather not worry about that particular problem.

[Heiroglyph]

Piru and I weren't the ones caught putting potentially damaging software on the market.  It's their PR blunder.

It's a legitimate concern that I'd like to at least get confirmation on before paying 9x cost for a driver that is locked to one USB card.

If the Deneb died, I understood that replacement cost was for custom hardware.

It hurts to pay $80 for driver development (which I'm fine with BTW) and then have to pay again if the $10 hardware dies.

Adding the worry of the driver going haywire and trashing my RDB is just a step too far to ask.

[Heiroglyph]

but surely with the wealth of coding skills among A.org members someone here could write a generic driver themselves rather than saying it's what Elbox "should" have done.

I think the biggest barrier to that is doing anything that might hurt Chris who has done nothing but good for the community as far as I am aware.

He only gets paid when people license Poseidon and a driver that doesn't feed anything back to him is kind of a slap in the face.

I also assume that he probably has a driver already and that if he was OK with the community doing it, then he would just release his instead.