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Offline kreciu

Re: Elbox: Black MEDIATORS Available
« on: December 17, 2015, 09:00:25 PM »
I wish there would be AGP slot or something like SATA, memory slot... after 15 years of "development", but lack of competition kills innovation in some cases.

I'm still happy to be able to use Mediator :), but...
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Offline kreciu

Re: Elbox: Black MEDIATORS Available
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2015, 01:44:10 AM »
Quote from: mechy;800389
Why would you need a agp slot, there are no drivers for agp cards, besides,pci is still way faster than the zorro3 bottleneck. that bottleneck will always be the problem.


Try to by PCI graphic card? Drives? Someone can write drivers.

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I seem to recall drivers for sata cards under os4x,but dont recall them for 3/x. I think it was non bootable anyway.

if anything i would like to see pci-e..


...but what about drivers and bottlneck for pci-e ;)

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I dont think its so much a lack of competition as its become such a small market no one wants to take the chance since they won't sell enough. its a monsterous investment to develop stuff like this.  The grex was the best idea of the bunch since it had a true pci bus,and didn't suffer from the zorro3 bottleneck.


Can anybody actually tell how many Amiga users is "there"? They are selling Mediators for VERY long time.
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Offline kreciu

Re: Elbox: Black MEDIATORS Available
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2015, 03:51:08 AM »
Quote from: Darrin;800407
@ Kreciu:  I've got one in my A4000.  Great piece of kit.  I've got the Radeon card with most of the card's RAM assigned to the system and a great 1920x1080 Workbench.  I have two "Spider" USB cards and a Soudblaster 128 taking up the PCI slots.  On the Zorro side I have a FastATA board for all of my drives and I need to see if I can cram my Emplant card in there too.


Me to I have Mediator TX and I'm quite happy with it, but Mediator TX was "on market" last 7 years and apparently Amiga did not dye! I think today in general people "rediscover" old computers and there is MANY, MANY new users trying to get to idea what were old computers and here Amiga environment allowed the to experience "real old hardware" (other old computers are quite dead...). My point is that there is new market for "new old hardware" for Amiga computers.
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Offline kreciu

Re: Elbox: Black MEDIATORS Available
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2015, 11:48:13 AM »
Quote from: Darrin;800413
 So, I don't think there is a new market, just us old farts who want to squeeze a bit more performance out of our trusty old machines.


I'm not THAT old... but in some way you are right. Old farts want to see their Amiga be as fast as possible, since 20+ years ago thierAmigas could not run 256 color in reasonable speeds. So, in some way "old Mediator" is still "new Mediator". It is like adding GTX 980ti 6GB for my A1200 :) and my Workbench would work almost the same as on VirgeDX 4MB.
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Offline kreciu

Re: Elbox: Black MEDIATORS Available
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2015, 11:53:44 AM »
Quote from: danbeaver;800419
Well, when someone goes out freshly these days looking for a Picasso IV and a Deneb, they are looking at spending about $400 plus $300 USD (or $700 USD total) with a long wait time for them to show up for sale; a Mediator, fully loaded would be < $500 USD instead, and the wait time would be only a few weeks as it crawled from Poland to its destination.

Absolutely. Considering what you get technically out of Mediator (GPU, network, sound etc.) this solution is much better and cheaper then anything out there. Picasso IV vs. Voodoo 3 or 4 or... Only one exception is problem of putting PC cards into Amiga :spitting on the floor: and using Sound Blaster to listen Amiga mods :never!: ;). (I can't play Canon Fodder theme under UAE it is just wrong ;) )

PS. Amigakit will deliver Mediator within week...
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Offline kreciu

Re: Elbox: Black MEDIATORS Available
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2015, 03:47:14 PM »
Quote from: Lurch;800469
So I'm not seeing any difference between this black version and my green TX mediator?

You don't have red LED... Time to upgrade.
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Offline kreciu

Re: Elbox: Black MEDIATORS Available
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2015, 04:46:19 AM »
Quote from: LoadWB;800508
It's not blue?! Oh, well, that makes up my mind.

Nope, it is red. You know red is color of Amiga :)

BTW. I REALLY like Mediator! It is just good to get little bit sarcastic. I just got RED Radeon 9250 :). But this also shows how all this upgrades are quite unrealistic. The same will apply to PC or Apple products, such as GPU back plates, GOLD iPhone... etc. etc.
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