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Title: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: deadwood on August 27, 2009, 04:12:12 PM
Following the implementation of bounty requirements (http://www.power2people.org/bounty_041.html) and transfer of bounty payment, the source codes for Poseidon USB are now available under the terms of AROS Public License (http://aros.sourceforge.net/license.html).

The Poseidon USB Stack, previously available for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS, is now also available for AROS and brings vast support for USB 1.1 and 2.0 chipsets. The Poseidon is already included in the latest version of Icaros distribution (http://www.icarosdesktop.org/). Download and enjoy.

Thanks go to everyone who contributed to this major achievement, from people donating the money and Chris working on port to AROS developers making minor bug fixes and finally AROS users testing numerous alpha and beta versions.

Source codes are available for download in the main AROS source (http://aros.sourceforge.net/download.php#nightly-builds) package.
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: jj on August 27, 2009, 05:42:32 PM
How long after thsi do you think before elbox has a stack for the spider :)
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: lorddef on August 28, 2009, 02:08:50 PM
Elbox are still in business?
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: dougal on August 28, 2009, 04:25:10 PM
So does this mean now that any future clockport or zorro USB interfaces won't be such a rip off ?
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: platon42 on August 28, 2009, 05:28:42 PM
Quote from: dougal;521312
So does this mean now that any future clockport or zorro USB interfaces won't be such a rip off ?


Troll...
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: Matt_H on August 28, 2009, 11:24:11 PM
Quote from: platon42;521321
Troll...


Seems that some users still don't understand the economic realities of the Amiga: low production volumes = high prices

But my Algor, Deneb, and Poseidon registration have been worth every penny. The absolute best USB software of any platform I've used.
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: giturox on August 29, 2009, 06:21:58 AM
I am the happy owner of a Subway USB-stack, and I absolutely love the fact that anything I have used together with my Subway has worked so far. I have tried USB-sticks, an external DVD-player, optical mice, and a drawing tablet. And all of it worked flawlessly. (The Wacom tablet actually does not work that well with Vista Ultimate 64bit (with the originall driver!) :-)).

So thank you Chris for making the software so versatile, reliable and friendly. You and Michael Böhmer sincerly deserves respect for such a nice hardware/software combo!

The release of this driver as open-source will ensure that Aros will get a significant boost with this USB-stack!
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: ChaosLord on August 31, 2009, 06:27:40 AM
Chris Hodges Forever!
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: Tahoe on August 31, 2009, 06:44:27 AM
Quote from: JJ;521106
How long after this do you think before elbox has a stack for the spider :)


I was thinking the same thing, ouch!
Hope that doesn't happen!

Respect to Chris, thanks alot for all your work! It's appreciated!
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: Crumb on August 31, 2009, 11:49:38 AM
Chris Hodges is the master of USB!

His stack won't fry your USB ports like OSX likes to do when the usb device has a shortcircuit :-D
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: jj on August 31, 2009, 09:41:34 PM
Quote from: Tahoe;521557
I was thinking the same thing, ouch!
Hope that doesn't happen!

Respect to Chris, thanks alot for all your work! It's appreciated!

Exactly, I hope this doesnt happen but elbox are hardly the most ethical company I have come across
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: platon42 on August 31, 2009, 10:38:33 PM
Quote from: JJ;521629
Exactly, I hope this doesnt happen but elbox are hardly the most ethical company I have come across


Why? The APL clearly states that everyone is free to do with the sources (nearly) whatever they want to. I would be surprised if there wasn't a back-port to 68k soon to make the Spider and Amithlon work again. Some people donated for exactly that reason.
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: Trev on August 31, 2009, 11:51:56 PM
Good answer, although I think we all know which finger Elb*x would use in answer to the APL. (I haven't read it but once. Can they use the stack with closed source drivers?)
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: paolone on September 01, 2009, 09:33:24 AM
Quote from: Trev;521644
Good answer, although I think we all know which finger Elb*x would use in answer to the APL. (I haven't read it but once. Can they use the stack with closed source drivers?)

Yes. Why shouldn't you?
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: jj on September 01, 2009, 03:09:30 PM
Quote from: platon42;521637
Why? The APL clearly states that everyone is free to do with the sources (nearly) whatever they want to. I would be surprised if there wasn't a back-port to 68k soon to make the Spider and Amithlon work again. Some people donated for exactly that reason.

 
Fair enough then.
Title: Re: Poseidon USB Sources Released under APL
Post by: Tron2k2 on September 03, 2009, 04:45:06 AM
It sounds like out of the two, at least Chris has made his peace with the whole Elbox deal.  I really like that.  We have far too small a community to have that kind of acrimony around.

Also, people who bought the Spider did so, expecting it to actually work.  Now maybe it will :-)