just saw the worrying Poseidon news

[mantisspider]

Due to reasons I will not explain here further (ask me in private), Poseidon keyfiles cannot be bought after 01-Aug-03. People having just bought an USB card, that does not come with an OEM Licence, have the chance to register Poseidon until the end of this month.

Support for existing users is NOT affected and will continue as usually.

It is recommended that dealers stop selling USB cards without licence to avoid angry customers buying an useless piece of hardware, until the vendor delivers his own software solution or the situation is solved somehow.

Chris Hodges
Author of Poseidon

the Elbox website says

The CD enclosed with the Spider card contains Mediator EHCI (USB 2.0) and OHCI (USB 1.1) drivers for the Poseidon stack.

But i gather from the news post Poseidon licencing ceasing on 01-Aug-03 that they dont supply the drivers for the Poseidon stack. :-( im pretty confused again.

basically; if i buy the spider PCI card i wont be able to use it cos Poseidon dont support it and supply drivers for it anymore? that right?
also saw that the spider is the only PCI hardware controller for the amiga. DAMN biscuits!

im sure there must be a lot of people coming back to the amiga who got excited about USB on their miggy (i told a friend of mine on the phone and he was stunned for a fair few moments). any info on how to show the glory of the digital cameras and easy data exchanging to our amiga 1200s will be greatly appreciated.

[mantisspider]

damn that sucks incredibly.

so the long and the short of it is that I wont be able to have USB on my amiga. DOH!

[mantisspider]

damn after reading all this things about the relationship between Hodges, Elbox and E3Bug makes u fill sick how people are still causing so much trouble around a platform which is trying to stop itself being killed.

guys developing for it should be applauded and hats off to Hodges, but if any of the accusations against him are true, it goes to show that the mighty dollar (quid, buck, sheckles, whatever) really turn something good into something bad.

So to use USB 2.0 devices on an Amiga, with OS3.9 (until OS4 comes out) what do we actually need?
barring in mind it has to be an option compatible with the Mediator PCI bus or the Eyetech PCI solution for those using that one.

This must be a question that is on so many Amiga users minds... cos face it, USB is one of major features required on any machine today.

cheers guys