Anachronism Industries buys Prometheus from Matay.

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Great!

please help to improve ArakAttack!
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!!! This is a debug version to check my native prometheus api. This driver won't enable any USB devices !!!

1. Install Poseidon 2.2

2. Copy the included PrometheusUSB.device into the devs:USBHardware drawer. Make sure the name stays unchanged.

3. Open a CLI and type "sushi >t:Logfile"

4. run Trident, enter the hardware section and add PrometheusUSB.device

5. push online within the trident window

6. press control-c in the CLI window

7. Send in the logfile.

8. If the logfile looks good, then you'll get a usb enabled version. If not, you'll get a new one.



I need your help! I don't own a Prometheus Board and your feed back is required if you want USB! AmithlonTV will be next
if USB succeeds."

download http://www.vmc.de/amithlon/swr/prometheususb.lha

http://www.vmc.de/amithlon/swr/

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"Well we need to get you one now don't we?  You have my email address, we'll be talking  "

The message was from Guido Mersmann, author of ArakAttack and AmithlonTV. I already own a Prometheus but the firmware hasn't been updated yet...

BTW, Interesting announcement :-)

Very important if you own a Prometheus, read THIS.

Check out the messages of Guido Mersmann in this thread (in german, use babelfish to translate).

It seems that OpenPCI has similar problems in other systems, the problems are memory function related, it seems that the upload rate goes down until it's 0 and there's a lock up.

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@Shades:
1. They'll end up working, I hope that very soon...
2. The problem is that HD controllers would need real DMA to the motherboard and Mediator&Prometheus don't have that at the moment... it may work but slowly, just like a powerflyer BTW, Tjaoz won't tell you that they didn't implement DMA to save costs in their powerflyers (and probably because they don't know).
3. My PC uses the same IRQ to switch between 3 pci cards, what's the problem? It's part of the official specification of PCI that cards should be able to share interrupts (And I doubt that Mediator uses different IRQs). Well, internally, in the Prometheus side each card has its own IRQ, but Prometheus talks with the Amiga motherboard using INT2...
4. Support is going to improve very soon (really!) ;-)
5. It's the most cost effective solution for Big box Amigas

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@Redrumloa:

If you produce it again, try to change slightly the design to make it look as the unreleased Mediator Zorro3, it would fit better and would require minimal changes in the layout.

and get in touch with european distributors like amigasuperbit.com, vessalia or KDH...