Mediators and towers

[wurzel]

KatManDEW wrote:
So there's an Amiga driver that allows the Amiga and Amiga apps to utilize those screen modes?

Is the EZ Z4 tower OK?

First, check the Elbox site (www.elbox.com iirc) to find all the drivers.

Second,  I believe any tower would be fine, though I wouldn't guarantee it lol

I've had a Mediator for 2 years and am very happy with it. Fit it with a Voodoo card and you see full colour on any screen, even workbench! It's really cool and everything needing graphics runs much faster; Pagestream, IBrowse and so on.

Definately recommended, if you want to stick with Amiga  :-D

[wurzel]

KatManDEW wrote:
@ wurzel: Thanks very much for the info and link. That's too cool. And since my accelerator won't fit in the A1200 case, and I have plenty of PCI hardware laying around gathering dust - tower power it is!

BTW: That's a rock'n tower setup that you have!

Thanks, it took me a while to get and the 1st time I powered it up was a heartstopper. I'm not an electrician or anything  :-o

Anyway, I got it working so now I'm on a second one, but with an Eyetech Tower, where the power supply works differently.

Just need another Mediator  :idea:

[wurzel]

KatManDEW wrote:
What are the USB options with the Mediator?

If I go with a tower, how would I access the PCMCIA slot? I only use it to read CF cards, but if I had USB that wouldn't be necessary.

With Mediator, you can use a Spider but unless you already have a registered Poseidon stack, you won't be able to use it more than 30mins at a time.

An alternative is the Subway board (try Amigakit.com) or a Deneb (not sure about this one).

The PCMCIA slot can be accesses by a right angle converter, but unless you leave the case off, you can't access it easily. I don't know of an extension cable; my slot is unused as I have a Spider with reg'd Poseidon and I have 4 USB porets. It works very well; it's a shame you can't register any more.