| From: | Matthew Allatt |
| Date: | 16 Aug 2001 at 20:35:02 |
| Subject: | Re: Mediator Drivers (was Re: 40 Years. LordHawHaw-Guy Fox-Lundy) |
Hello Alan
On 16-Aug-01, you wrote:
> according to Hyperion, the info they have on the matrox will enable
> support BACK to os3.9 - i assume that means drivers for current PCI/AGP
> solutions...trouble is there seems to be a lack of PCI G450's :-|
Good. Unfortunately, there seems to be a bit of a lack of PCI graphics cards
of any note. I had a really tough time getting a Voodoo card.
Apparently the Shark will have an AGP slot on it. This will solve the
problem for Mediator owners who want to upgrade.
I don't expect to see the Shark on the market until AmigaOS4 is out. Why
would Elbox release a board which has no software support at all? When they
released the mediator, a least they had an ethernet driver, and a Virge
driver to go with it.
Despite all the hype, I'd doubt that Sony would have sold many Playstation
2's without the token-gesture 6 or so games there were available at the
time.
>
> of *course* theres SCSI info...theres loads of it. in fact i was expecting
> SCSI cards to quickly follow the first wave of gfx drivers....it'd be a
> BIG selling point. and as AmigaOS supports SCSI as new device drivers it'd
> be straight in - the only thing is you couldnt boot off of em....but
> everyone could have cheaper SCSI CDR, Tape, fast-disks, scanners etc.
>
It is a shame that no-one has done a driver for this yet. Not Elbox, not
theDCE, not Matay. I quite agree that it would be a strong selling point.
> oh yes, give me an Adaptec 2940UW for 40 quid, an epson scanner and a
> yamaha/plextor 16x SCSI and i'll be very happy.
>
I didn't realise that SCSI cards were that cheap? I was expecting them to be
a bit more costly. I paid 45 quid for my 2xserial, and parallel IO card!
> currently my only SCSI options are... one, sell my Amiga and get an A4k
> and start again, 2 sell my PPC and get the SCSI version (ouch), or get a
> SCSI surf-squirrel...hmmm, 16bit with < 8Mb/s speed at 100% CPU load? no
> thanks
Are you listening Elbox? Anyone?
>
>
Regards
Matthew.
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