Elbox Dragon "news"

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@ Karlos
How enigmatic. I assume they mean that it didn't run 680x0 object code without freaky side effects

It's not about 68k emulation at all.
Those problems reported many Linux developars that use Coldfire under Linux on another hardware platforms. Completely not related to Amigas.

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@ Platon42
Sure, I guess /you/ would start a legal battle over 38 EUR?

Is this only about this single 38EUR licence fee?

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@ Donar
First Darek Smietana says that it is not about 38¤ but about some diffrences between Chris Hodges+E3B with Elbox (Note: Thats Elbox point of view). bla bla - Thats the part with the 38¤.

I'll try to translate the remaining part of that one with 38EUR which Donar have left untranslated.
Cite: "Chris Hodges was satisfied with the contract with Elbox, but only till the time when it turned out that Elbox developed their drivers for Poseidon much faster than he expected. It tooks a few weeks, not years.
Probably Hodges counted on growing up of the interest of Poseidon as the standard for Amiga and in the mean time to have no competitor for E3B products for a long time."
This is instead of Donar's "bla bla"
I did my best trying to translate strictly as it is, as far as my lame english lets me do.

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@ Platon42
[...]before Elbox started going to slag E3B for no reason and started doing there unfair competition (by refusing to mention that Poseidon was NOT included in "their" product).

Here in a news on PPA.pl in which is an announcement of Spider USB card. It informs among others that SpiderUSB package contains an unregistered time-limited demo version of Poseidon USB stack.

Cite from PPA.pl
"Pakiet sprzedawany przez Elbox zawiera:
- Kartê Spider USB 2.0
- Sterowniki Mediator OHCI USB zgodne z oprogramowaniem Poseidon
- Niezarejestrowan± ograniczon± czasowo wersjê demo stosu USB - Poseidon."

The package that Elbox sells includes:
- Spider USB2.0 card
- Mediator OHCI USB drivers compatible with Poseidon
- Unregistered, time-limited demo version of Poseidon USB stack

This is 13.09.2002 news - right before Spider got to market.

Here is Elbox's news archive and here is a news in which Elbox informs about drivers for Poseidon stack:

Cite:
"The unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack will be available in the Mediator Multimedia CD. Registration of the Poseidon stack for Mediator users will be provided by Chris Hodges."

It's from 11 September 2002.