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Re: Catweasel 4 on 64-bit Windows
« on: June 21, 2014, 06:18:48 PM »
What was the name of the 3rd party developer who was working on new drivers for the Catweasel cards?  I am really bad at remembering names and have forgotten his name or nickname, but he had done a good deal of work on drivers and/or utilities for at least 1 or more of the Catweasel cards to make them work inside AmigaOS4.x machines by modifying the Linux drivers (IIRC).  I think this is why AmigaKit commissioned a production run of the Catweasel Mk2 that could be used in the X1000 computers.  Does any of this bring back memories to any of you about 3rd party driver development for the Catweasel cards?

Maybe this 3rd party programmer would be more likely to work on a 64bit driver than Jens, who appears to have abandoned any work on the Catweasel products.
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Re: Catweasel 4 on 64-bit Windows
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2014, 07:41:06 PM »
Quote from: fishy_fiz;767541
Spirantho is the man behind the amiga-oid drivers by the way.


Yes, thanks for remembering the name of the developer who had worked on new drivers for the Catweasel cards.

He is the guy we need to write to, to ask if he thinks that 64bit drivers could be written for any of the Catweasel cards.

I also agree that it was a great hardware idea, but was never fully realized with supporting software or drivers to take full advantage of the hardware ports provided.

I bought several of them, different models each time, hoping that better drivers would eventually be delivered.  I was very unhappy when support was dropped and Jens announced that he would no longer be working on any new updates for any of the drivers for the Catweasel boards.
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