just saw the worrying Poseidon news

[Acill]

Yup its true, basicly if you get a Spider USB card for mediator you have a 30 min use of Poseidon. Its lame and stupid to say the least. This has been a long ongoing battle in the mediator mailing list for ages now too. I got a spider just before the post about him not supporting it, by the time I got my card it was to late. I have since sold it because Chris refused to issue me a key even if I paid for in twice! I'm now using a ZII Algor card (I think the big thing was Elbox sold more Spider cards then E3B sold clock and Zorro cards)

[Acill]

New Elbox drivers (e.g. for Mediator) do not work when you have any USB card from E3B (subway, highway, algor) installed in your computer.

No this is simply untrue. I have a Algor and I have a mediator, both are working just fine.

tjaoz wrote:

[Acill]

The thing that makes me mad about this this, Chris went to Elbox and got them to stop development on the USB stack they wee making and adopt his. Not after a few months of it working he acts like a child and takes it away. Not very adult if you ask me. I wasted $80 on a spider card too before I knew he stopped taking registrations.

[Acill]

If I was cynical I would say that the anti-piracy code was a convenient excuse for CH, after all he has a number of other possibly (<----note the word possibly) conflicting companies using his software!.

Well said! You know I am 99.9% sure that this all came out when someone tried to pirate the driver and make a non Elbox branded with the same chipset work with the drivers. I'm sure the code activated and messed up te RDB at that time. Its a shame, but thats what you get for hackig a driver like that. chris the decided he would be a child and do what he did. If you read his soap opera you can see he is the one that freaked and didnt and acted likea kid instead of talking it out. That email he sent to Elbox was just totaly off the scale!!! I cant believe a programer would do something like that! How baby like can you get Chris?!

[Acill]

i want an answer and that NOW, i give a #### about the malicious code in spider driver because it would never hurt me anyway, if it had then it would have trashed my system ages ago...nothing ever works here

Like I said before, its all untrue about E3B cards makig the Meiator not works or do any harm to your system. I am using a Catweasel and an Algor USB card (since my spider is useless to me now) with no problems at all.

[Acill]

For those interested I have contacted the author of the Thylacene USB stack and cards as well as Elbox to see if Elbox would be interested in writing a second set of drivers for this stack. Its a nice stack and well worth it. The good thing about this is the OS4 USB stack and this one are one in the same. The author is very interested it sounds like.