The Day Of The Dragon!!

[Lando]

This is just par for the course in Amiga-land.  

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)

[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..

[klesterjr]

@Lando

Geez, Louise!

The Dragon was announced as coming out at the end of January -- it's not even late yet! ("Almost", though -- maybe they were overly "optimistic" on the time-frame).

The ACK isn't even supposed to be out yet! Q1 2005 means sometime between January 1, 2005 and March 31, 2005.

[klesterjr]

@rayt

Like I said -- that would be cool if it turns out to be correct!

[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..

[bloodline]

klesterjr wrote:
@Lando

Geez, Louise!

The Dragon was announced as coming out at the end of January -- it's not even late yet! ("Almost", though -- maybe they were overly "optimistic" on the time-frame).

Nope, it's late now :-)

I'm not interested in the ack thing... but then I already have a BlizzPPC (Still wating for Karlos to send me his HD image :-D, the clocks ticking dude!), but the Dragon has my attention... perhaps only out of curiosity and hardcore nostalgia...

Ooooooh... I'm so warm and fuzzy :-D 64 glorious bits, and loving it!

[Bennymee]

There is information about the Dragon from Elbox on the Yahoo Mediator malinglist.

[odin]

Clickety-click

'Hello,

The big day is coming,... but it will be not today yet.

Unfortunately, things are not always going as expected.
We planned starting sales of Dragon cards for the end
of January. Some of the subassemblies have not reached us
on time, though. Therefore, the sales starting date will
be slightly delayed.'

....

[ikir]

Yes, maybe NOT making an announcement until there was more than vapor?

Vapor = doesn't exist

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

[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.

[Lando]

rayt wrote:

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.

I would expand that to "If it's not shrinkwrapped, on the shelves for me to buy".

It doesn't really matter if some hardware guy has a working prototype on his desk and puts up photos on the Net (there have been photos of the SharkPPC floating about for years).  If I can't buy it, it's vapour.

[X-ray]

Ding Ding Ding...welcome to February. Okay where are the Dragon boards?

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:

I'm not interested in the ack thing... but then I already have a BlizzPPC (Still wating for Karlos to send me his HD image :-D, the clocks ticking dude!), but the Dragon has my attention... perhaps only out of curiosity and hardcore nostalgia...

I thought your blizzard was fecked, anyway :-P

Have to admit, I'd like to see a nice fast coldfire or something rammed where my old apollo 1240 used to go. Oo er missus :-o

-edit-

Seeing as it is you, one HD image coming right up:

[X-ray]

 :lol:

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:

bloodline wrote:

I'm not interested in the ack thing... but then I already have a BlizzPPC (Still wating for Karlos to send me his HD image :-D, the clocks ticking dude!), but the Dragon has my attention... perhaps only out of curiosity and hardcore nostalgia...

I thought your blizzard was fecked, anyway :-P

Fecked, but still functional... This is a Phase5 original we are talking about... I'm sure they must have made military hardware :-D

Have to admit, I'd like to see a nice fast coldfire or something rammed where my old apollo 1240 used to go. Oo er missus :-o

Ahhh, good... I'm not going mad then :-D

-edit-

Seeing as it is you, one HD image coming right up:

Ha! I'll just copy that to my Miggy! Lets see what OS4 can do!

-edit- Didn't work... my Blizz must be more fecked than I thought :-(