A4000 Upgrade - Mediator VS Deneb

[mechy]

I wonder how many "unsolved technical issues" are actually "ID10T" or "PEBKAC" errors?  :lol:

Oh well, damned if you do, damned if you don't.  /snark  

Mine will not work in z3 mode,as soon as the stack tries to ocme up and call the driver it crashes the machine, tested it in 4 different amigas with all the available drivers and tcp/ip stacks as well as os3.1 -3.9-spent a week of nights testing to make sure i had setups right, the reply i got back from amigakit was "reinstall the drivers".
annoyed about it i just put it in the box and tossed it in a corner lol. i must be getting old because i guess that just annoyed me.

[mechy]

Hm I guess I could get a Mediator and keep the Picasso for awhile. It seems more flexible than just a Deneb. But the price us putting me off.

The Picasso IV is a great card, i would keep it. I had bought one brand new in 1995 i think for $379-best thing i ever bought since it allowed 24bit workbench and stuff.

That being said the mediator is great also, it allows workbench in 1900x1280x32 and mapping video card ram to the amiga if you need it. the down side is for 15khz stuff you need a scan doubler or some way to see it,which is a vga switch with 15khz amiga video in and radeon/voodoo video in(i use a dell st2420L LCD monitor that can handle 15khz in so it makes it easy.
it is possible to run a PIV and Mediator radeon/voodoo at the same time but you will likely need the mediator pro tower with lotsa slots.

The great thing about the Deneb is its fast, and it has a 1MB flash you can store the os3.9 rom in and avoid the reboot.(you can also do this with easy flash i guess).
i would say its the finest card i have ever owned next to a PIV,with the algor pro coming in 3rd.
the deneb is one fine card and i wish i had bought half a dozen when they went for $150usd or so.

 I have tried ethernet via the deneb with a linksys m200 stick and it worked great,but i prefer ethernet on zorro or pci since usb always has more cpu usage and overhead. I use a $2 dell ethernet card in the mediator i got new from ebay.
the deneb is better than the spyder for the reasons above,but the spyder can be made from a nec card

Mech

[mechy]

I too, had "tech" problems. I couldn't get the roadshow usb to work with usb sticks on my quikpak 060. Moved it to a bog standard 4000 and that was okay but had to drop to zorro2.

The xsurf100 by itself works fine in zorro3 and with the quikpak060... with that said,
it can be a good combo if your machine is compatible.

hah! mine is the opposite, the x-surf crashes the machine in z3, i tried it with many different stacks and all the latest drivers for it. forced to z2 it works,but of course the whole point of buying it was i wanted to use z3 mode.
why did you have to drop to z2 in the stock 4000?

[mechy]

Mechy is that using a the original Commodore daughterboard? I'm a bit concerned if the X-surf 100 is that unstable? Or any possible fixes?

i tried it in several stock machines with different accelerators including 3640's.. i have a dud card. its nothing to do with aftermarket boards etc.

the x-surf requires buster 11.