The Day Of The Dragon!!

[rayt]

Good morning all,

as you know elbox announced the dragon for end of january.. Today is the 31st, but they haven't released it yet.. which obviously means that IT WILL BE RELEASED TODAY!!!!111 :banana:  :banana:

w0000000t w000000t!!!!11one :banana:  


 :-D

[rayt]

Ignoring people is NOT a good way to get people to BUY!

I think its better if he keeps on working on his product so that one day he can actually release it rather than hanging out in forums and making big announcements.

[rayt]

@ Methanoid

As far as I have heard ACK plan to sell the small version of the board for 399Eur and the big one (which also works stand alone in a microAtx case) for 499Eur excluding VAT. Thats what he (or someone using his nick) said on irc some time ago.. But of course until theres some working prototype shown this is as much as vapor than the dragon so who cares..

PS: Anyone interested in Dragon or just the ACK thang?

Only PPC/ACK thang for me :-D

[rayt]

i got more of an interest for dragon since elbox has been more of a help for the amiga comunity with pci fast ATA++ they have made good quality products so far after my opinion ..

Yes I share your opinion. Mediator is a great product and they also have good support. I bought 2 Mediators from them and never had any serious problem.
But imho they lost a lot of credit with their agressive behaviour towards developers (p96 & Poseidon drivers). While these things don't affect me (as a customer) directly, the thing I found most annoying (as a customer) is all the bull**** announcements about the SharkPPC.
I'm not trying to flame against Elbox, they made great products (I use them every day), but I seriously doubt that the dragon coldfire accelerator exists until they release photos/videos. Imho they should have spent their ressources on a ACK like ppc solution.. Supporting a discontinued OS does not help anyone I fear..

[rayt]

Hadn't heard that (but then I don't do the IRC thing). I'm assuming that price doesn't include OS4 (it would be cool if it DID, though!)

I remember him saying that these prices include an OEM version of OS4. But please remember that its nothing official, just something he said on the amigaworld.net irc server some time ago.. I don't want to spread rumours here that turn out to be bull**** in the end..

[rayt]

Guess we can add Dragon, ACK PPC card and Shark PPC to the ever-growing list (Blizzard G3/G4, Cyberstorm G3/G4, BoXer, AmiJoe, AmigaOne-1200, Walker, AmigaMCC, Amiga Coldfire, Merlancia Tsunami/Apocalyps, Brainstormer, A/Box, Paraglide, Amiga 5000/6000, Amirage K2, Pios TransAM etc etc)

I wouldn't put the Walker in a list with AmigaMMC/A1-1200 and Merlancia type projects.. Its true that it was already obsolete the day it was announced, but at least they had a working prototype, and the walker would have been released if Escom didn't went bust..

[rayt]

Vapor = doesn't exist

If you don't have it, doesn't mean it is vapor.

As long as there are no pictures of it, no videos, or other proofs of its existance, I think it can be called vapour.