Stop buying from ELBOX ! ? ! ?

[Rob]

@Nlandas

I sent a support request + some questions about SharkPPC and Dragon boards to Elbox on the 29th of July. I got a response on the 30th including answer regarding SharkPPC and Dragon.

 Rob napisa_(a):
>
> Hello,

 Hello,
 
> I have Mediator PCI and Fast ATA controller installed in my A1200T and
> now plan to get one of Jens Schoenfelds new scandoublers.
>
> According to Jens the Fast ATA controller will probably fit in with the
> scandoubler if you use extra ROM sockets to raise the main section of
> the Fast ATA .
> Can you tell me if the Mediator will fit over the Fast ATA if it has
> been raised with extra sockets?

No. It is rather impossible.
 
> I also have a few questions and ideas regarding future Elbox products.
 
> 1. Is there any possibility that the Dragon could be sold with a CPU
> card that has an 040/060 socket instead of the Coldfire CPU.  That way
> users could use the CPU from their old Blizzard or Apollo card and have
> the benefit of DMA between the system RAM and the PCI bus.

There is no sense to still use 68040 or 60 processor in the Dragon
system. The Coldfire processor, which will be installed in the production
version  of the Dragon board will be much faster than 68060.

> 2 Is there any news on the SharkPPC.

We do our best to release Shark boards this year.
 
> 3 Does Elbox have any plan to make a new Amiga using the the Minimig
> core or licence cores such as Natami or Clone A cores.
> If you can get the SharkPPC with OS4 on sale a Classic Amiga card could
> fit to the Mediator or Dragon where the A1200 would normally connect.
>  That way users could have a brand new OS4 capable Amiga hardware
> without an additional hardware contract.

Running OS4 for Classic on any system, which does not contain the Amiga
classic motherboard is afaik not covered by the license agreement between
Hyperion and Amiga Inc.

> I look forward to hearing from you and hope that you find some of my
> ideas usefull.

Thank you very much for sharing us your ideal. We really appreciate this.

Best regards,

Support Department of ELBOX COMPUTER
Web site: http://www.elbox.com
Online Store: http://buy.elbox.com

>
> Regards,
>
> Rob

[Tomas]

jimmyboy wrote:
Its nice to see that hardware is still being developed at any level wether it be large or small. But shouldnt we all stop buying from Elbox?
 The reason i say this is cos i think its dam unfair they keep the shark ppc card on there to entice people to buy the mediator busboards. They dont give any kind of update to it working or if it will ever come out so its dam obvious its a scam.
 I understand it would be hard, but its been on there so long they could of made it into a standard ppc style card and cut out the 680*0 chip. Isnt it about time they gave us an update on this or remove it from the website. We should start a petition on this imo and put these ghosts to rest.
 Also whats happening with the coldfire project? Can anyone get a formal update out of them on any of these? Its no wonder why people have started there own projects like the natami.
 Who would be up for starting a sticky thread petition? Hopefully get there attention.

Is it really a good idea to kill one of the very last amiuga hardware companies? Elbox has made alot of decent hardware throughout the years. The SharkPPC was aimed for OS4, so what is the point in releasing it without a license/OS4 port? I wonder more about why they havent released the dragon.

[Dandy]

Rob wrote:
@Nlandas

I sent a support request + some questions about SharkPPC and Dragon boards to Elbox on the 29th of July. I got a response on the 30th including answer regarding SharkPPC and Dragon.

 Rob napisa_(a):
>
> Hello,

Hello,
...
Running OS4 for Classic on any system, which does not contain the Amiga classic motherboard is afaik not covered by the license agreement between Hyperion and Amiga Inc.
...

Well, thing simply is that I don't have any "license agreement" - neither with AInc, nor with Hyperion.

I legally bought the OS and I'll run it on every hardware where it is able to run on.

Who is going to check on which hardware I'm going to run the OS on?

Even Microsoft didn't mind me running MS-DOS or later Win3.1 on Amiga hardware...

EDIT:

AInc. claim to be a "software company" - and as such they should be interested in getting "their" software running on as much hardware as possible...

Not my fault, if they don't really care...