@bhoggett
Hardly. Not only are you intent on damaging a developer,
No, this is not my intention.
It is Hodges who tries to damage his own reputation and his own product with the childish game, he plays against Spider users and against Elbox.
According to me, such behaviour as his should be publicly ostracised.
Hodges did not prepare drivers for Spider. Pawel Stypula, a developer from Elbox did the job. The drivers were prepared on Hodges's request. Now Hodges refusing sales of keys for Mediator users is trying to DESTROY the work of another developer.
At the same time, Hodges tries to destroy the only USB 2.0 controller for Amiga and to help selling out ancient USB 1.1 cards made by his friend from E3B. Sure, same Pegasos fans applause Hodges. They are not really happy with Pegasos having only USB 1.1 support while Spider is a USB 2.0 controller.
Games like that of Hodges' make the Amiga situation as bad as it is now. Sure, for you it's only pleasure - you are not bothering about a computer which you do not have.
but you troll by posting 6 replies to every one post.
It seems that you have serious problems with counting. Could you show me these 6 replies of mine to ONE post?
And why would I do that? I not me who hates Chris Hodges, it's you. It's not ArakAttack users who will not get support with Poseidon, it's Elbox customers.
Why would you do that?
Maybe you posted this 'how-to-crack-Poseidon' guide in order to convince Hodges to finally begin Poseidon registration for ArakAttack users. Now he has no choice, if he does not want to lose money he should very quickly start the Poseidon registration for the ArakAttack users. It looks like Amithlon funs have much more 'effective methods' to convince Hodges to support their platform than Mediator users have ever had.
I don't have a Spider, since I wouldn't touch any Elbox product with a bargepole, and I don't use ArakAttack as I have no need for USB on the few occasions I use AmigaOS.
As someone completely not 'interested in using the Poseidon stack' you have very much to talk about. :-)
Really? Shall we dig up the way they broke the licensing conditions on the P96 dev kit? Or the way they sold the Spider II with "Amithlon support" without telling the general public that they couldn't use it yet? Or the recriminations and name calling they indulged in with Hyperion before agreeing a deal over the Warp3D drivers for Voodoo 3 cards? Or the way they claimed thay had Voodoo 4 and 5 specific drivers when they were only Voodoo 3 drivers that worked with Voodoo 4 and 5 but without the advanced features being supported? Or the viruses they put in their software and the LIES they told when denying the existence of those trojans? Or how about the long list of drivers they said they had in development years ago which have never materialised.
1. Elbox wrote their own hardware drivers for graphic cards to work with the P96 graphic system. P96 authors did not help Elbox in writing these drivers. Elbox never had any contract with them. What Elbox did in this case is legal and honest. From each point of view it is much more fair than what other companies did with P96.
Maybe you prefer the Ateo way?
I heard that they ordered P96 drivers from P96 team for their Pixel64 card. The Picasso team developed these drivers but Ateo never paid.
2. As far as Spider Amithlon support is concern your accusations are your own fantasies. I remember this amiga.org thread where you were so angry at Elbox that VMC placed on-line their new powerpci.library a few days AFTER Elbox had announced the Spider II Amithlon support.
It so funny that in your eyes Elbox is responsible for everything happening in the world. :-)
It is even more funny taking into account that, as you wrote, you are not interested in USB support at all :-)
3. About Elbox and Hyperion story: Elbox and Hyperion are serious companies. They negotiated the Warp3D contract longer than e.g. Matay did. But remember that Matay do not exist as a company any more, so it is not the best example. Finally both Elbox and Hyperion met their contract obligations. I even heard that Elbox was the only company which paid Warp 3D OEM bills.
BTW As far as I see you are an Amithlon fun.
Do you know that Amithlon does not have Warp 3D support at all?
Do you know that it is because Amithlon authors/editors have not agreed to pay Hyperion for the Warp 3D OEM licence like Elbox did?
Why you do not cry in this case?!
4. Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5 support: Elbox have their own P96 drivers SPECIFIC for the Voodoo 4 and Voodoo5 cards. Warp 3D drivers for Voodoo 3 support Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5 thanks to proper initialization of Voodoo4/5 cards by Elbox 2D drivers. Elbox clearly informed about this, e.g. here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amiga-Prometheus/message/10575. About viruses and trojans: You should learn a little bit more what are the meanings of these words.
You'd need to extract your head from your rectum before you could see any of that, and we all know that's asking too much of you.
Interesting ideas. Are you practising some yoga games? It must be very hard on your body when you want to write in this position :-)
