Announcement: Technical data of the new Catweasel MK4 controller

[KennyR]

But unfortunately the software support probably won't be so agreeable (at least it wasn't with the CW3), and Jens doesn't make it any better by alienating platform users over petty personal squabbles.

[KennyR]

Amidog wrote:
Looks like most platforms are supported...

Classic Amiga and Amithlon are not, if you notice. Also MorphOS users have to pay extra for drivers, probably because of an argument Jens had with Genesi over renting a room years ago that should have been a complete non-issue for any mature person.

One OpenPCI version of the driver would cover MOS, Amithlon and Amiga Classic PCI all in one go, and probably OS4 later too. I can't see why Jens doesn't go this route.

[KennyR]

Yeah, far be it for anyone to support their own hardware. We shouldn't ask too much of Jens. The poor baby.

Perhaps Jens would like to explain to us why anyone would want to buy his hardware when we have to supply our own drivers? Or when his actions are obviously so petty?

Maybe next week one of Hyperion will look at him the wrong way and suddently CW4 'won't be designed for OS4/A1 any more'. You never know.

[KennyR]

Is it called for? Well, sort of. You see this has really pissed many people off, and there are loud murmurings of MOS-based developers doing the same with their software - allowing everyone to use their stuff for free, and charging OS4 users. If there was a way to divide the community further, stunts like this are great. Jens isn't supporting MOS because it's impractical, he's doing it out of pretty obvious spite - he could support multiple platforms just by using OpenPCI! I'm sorry I ever bought my CW3 from him now.

And he's talked himself out of better support for the CW4 SIDs from the MOS side - if you remember itix was the first to support CW3 for Frodo, and left the open source for anyone else to do the same. Needless to say he can't do this again for CW4 if its 'not designed for' the machine he uses.

[KennyR]

Fuzion wrote:
I would REALLY like to see AmiNetRadio for OS4. Currently I can only get v2.5 working. Works great too. I'd like to see the new ones though. Some of those GUIs look crackin!

IIRC they complain about not being able to find a GUI although they are there.

This is a problem in OS4, in one of the pattern parsing functions. It's already worked around and will be fixed for the next release. *

Well...that's if Jens Schöfeld's recent actions haven't pissed off Gelb too much, that is.

You won't be able to use transparency though, not unless P96 emulates CGX5 transparency calls...

(* -  It would be even nicer if you could convince Hyperion to fix the problem routine, though.)

[KennyR]

Wayne wrote:
It's Jens' product, and he can do what he wants with it.

Of course, but one can also advise people not to buy it because he's so childish, that's well within our rights too, no?

Not that it really matters - I suppose a self-done CW driver would be better than any of the very poor official ones...

[KennyR]

Wayne wrote:
Your opinion of whether Jens is "childish" is irrelevant. The FACT is that you're simply pissed off because he made the economic choice that in order to pay for the hardware required, he would need to charge for drivers.

Doesn't look like an economic choice from where I'm sitting, Wayne, or OS4 would be an even less attractive option than MOS. Maybe you should try looking harder through Schönfeld's sophistry and at some of the other times he's been accused of childishness in the past before blindly writing this one off as camp-against-camp fighting.

[KennyR]

@itix

The problem isn't just with MorphOS users. Schönfeld has being doing this to customers before the Pegasos was even available.

[KennyR]

Rogue wrote:
Can you tell me what function that is? We can then subsequently fix the problem, instead of having application programmers work around it.

MatchPatternNoCase(). But it probably effects all Match#? dos functions.

[KennyR]

It should do, because for sure more people use Windows 3.1 than will ever use OS4.