ELBOX New Spider device

[matthey]

No, I'm just being childish like you are as you try and undermine Amigakit and Elbox sales.

Piru and Chris Hodges (Poseiden author) may rub people the wrong way sometimes but they aren't the bad guys here.

I think Elbox is very "unprofessional" for...

1) Releasing a driver that could potentially destroy HD information (Confirmed by Chris Hodges).
2) Rebadging a generic card as their own and writing a driver for it instead of writing a universal driver that works with any NEC USB card.

I think Elbox is somewhat unprofessional for...

1) Using a pirated copy of Poseiden.
2) Advertising the PPC Shark forever with no intention of bringing it out.
3) Having the worst e-mail management of any company I have ever seen.

Elbox deserves to have their Spider driver hacked/patched to work with a generic NEC card. Hmm, Maybe I should buy a $7 card and give it a try. I better back up my hard drive first though :/.

[matthey]

@jj:
if so, another reason to go with open software. even elbox could be fine with that as it could give them some more sell even if not in rebadged pci devices sector. they should have concentrated on pcibridge solution as such long ago.

I don't think Elbox is fine with it or they would have made a generic USB driver from the start. I doubt they would have lost much if any money because of the increased Mediator sales. Their greedy clenched fists can't hold as much money as an open hand.

[matthey]

so execuse me if i now say, that i have an impression the whole campaign was an attempt at damaging elbox public image in exchange for how they treated chris.

No, I don't excuse that.

Ok, so much for "bygones" Chris. How about modifying your USB device for OpenPCI which Elbox doesn't like and sticking them with a bunch of nearly worthless Spider cards they can't sell. I thought it was worth a try anyway .

[matthey]

@matt: perhaps chris doesnt need to bother with that, if jason picks up the job.

Sure, but then Chris wouldn't be able to extract his revenge by depriving Elbox of sales and sticking them with a bunch of modified USB cards they can't sell .

Would the AROS USB driver use OpenPCI? It would be nice if AROS incorporated OpenPCI but then they probably already have another PCI interface? Do your Mediator Voodoo 3 or Radeon P96 drivers work in AROS yet? I heard that AROS was working on supporting P96 drivers.