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Re: Dragon confusion
« on: August 12, 2005, 12:21:05 PM »
I still am highly sceptical about the existence of the dragon (as an Amiga accelerator). Ever wondered why there is no "full body" shot of the card, just a little close up here an there ? Maybe they learned from the sharkdesaster where it only took a few weeks for someone to find out that the shown card was only a rebadged Sonnet MAC-Accelerator (by the way we are still waiting).
The spider was only a standard PCI card with an altered ROM to dongle it, so no one buy the card fo 9.99 EUR at a PC-store.

What makes you think they actually made something new with the dragon ? Im sure there are industry PCI-cards with a coldfire on it (like there were one with an 68040 for the VME-bus). The tricky part is to write software that make this standardcard run in an Amiga and there I have some doubts that Elbox can come up with something decent. You know it`s a little bit more complicated then the ROM for a mouseadapter.
They had plenty of time now to make the Shark run with OS4, but I forgot it should magically run straight out of the box, so no work is neccesary. Well if that is so why not sell it yet and make money eh ?
Not really interesting, but it`s there.
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