| [News] Elbox is releasing their 100% compatible P96 driver today | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 13-Feb-2001 21:46 GMT by Christian Kemp | 31 comments
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Christophe Decanini quotes VGR.COM: ELBOX Computer Development Department is proud to announce today's release of the new driver for graphic cards working with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard (..) Support for Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 cards is limited to 24-bit graphic mode. Here is the press release.
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| Posted by the man in the shadows on 13-Feb-2001 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 11 (Kenny):
> It`s funny that nobody disputes that no matter how good they say PCI is,
> everyone accepts that it isn`t an AutoConfig device, and no-one can beat
> that.
So you are saying that PCI is perfectly acceptible if the boards were autoconfig? The only shortcoming of PCI is autoconfig imho, everything else about it smokes Zorro 3 & 4 (Zorro 4 isn't as fast as Zorro 3 but it is a very close second)
> Of course Zorro should be updated, Zorro 5 would be very nice. In my mind
> a Zorro 5 interface would be unbeatable. the cynics might say, "Zorro 4
> wasn`t well supported". That is irrelevent. Zorro 4 was never an official
> Amiga standard.
That's a bit far fetched. The Z4 standard is more supported that you might think. Eyetech, bPlan, Elbox, and a few others support that format. When you think about it, all but two companies have supported the design. As for being as far from an "official" Amiga standard, it sure got enough attention. I believe that Ralph Schmidt proved this point of stating that there is no standards in Amigadom by creating MorpOS instead of updating PowerUP. However, that's an entirely different story.
> If those guys at Amiga inc. included backwardly compatible Zorro 5
> interfaces as part of a new amiga spec, THEN it would be more widely
> supported.
What I'd like to see: Z5 would be PCI with Autoconfig. Z6 would be AGP with Autoconfig. Let's take it a bit further and include some way to keep the driver for the PCI interface on the card itself like in a flashable ROM or something. When the card is plugged into the Z5/Z6 interface it communicates with the Host environment and loads the appropriate drivers or native drivers for the AmigaDE/ONE. THAT would be anything that the original Z bus ever had to offer. I think that Dave Haynie said it best when he stated the PCI bus was everything that Z4 was (Amiga 3000+ prototype) without Autoconfig. The whole point is, anything is possible with the Amiga. Regardless of the components being PCI, they can still be used to the advantage of Amiga users world wide. Another reason to use PCI, it's a standard. I wouldn't be surprised if it goes out the door be the beginning of next year though. With the advent of AGP and AMR slots starting to be found in systems, PCI could be a think of the past. If you don't know, AMR stands for Audio/Modem Riser. Before you condemn PCI into obliteration, look at the numbers and the capabilities, then have a look at how it could be changed to benefit the Amiga.
> Ten years ago, the Amiga had it`s own hardware, personality, image and
> style. Now? NO actual amiga hardware, NONE of the old commodore personality,
> NO associated image, who knows what an amiga is now? and no style
> conformity. Amiga`s need to be individual again. AMIGA case designs, the
> ORIGINAL AMIGA CHECK MARK, ADVERTISING!!!!! And a cusom case design, rather
> than a standard PC case. If we`re going to come back, lets do it right.
I'm going to ask a very serios question and I don't mean it to be offensive. Have you been stuck under a rock for the past years? Or for that matter, the past 6 months? The Amiga still has it's own hardware and they are developing a reference platform for hardware developers to use as a base to go on. Yeah it will have things like USB, FireWire, DIMM sockets, RIMM sockets (depending), PCI, AGP, AMR, and a whole slew of other _Industry Standard_ options. The point being is that the whole idea behind the "AmigaONE" is not to keep anyone from moving away from the Amiga, but offering an Amiga that would have the eight years or so of developement if it had that in a weekends time. After the AmigaONE has been released, I'm sure that further developement will be done on the reference platform to implement things like those above.
The only thing I don't understand, how can you say that DKB is not one of the "old commodore personality"? The one thing that I hope stays out of the whole advertising is the checkmark. That has always been my least favorite out of all of the images and logos that Amiga has had. I really like the 3D look of the Boing ball... but it's not the Joe Torre Boing Ball, but a different version instead. The "Joe T. BB" had 64 squares on it where as the current one only has 48. The 64 came from an old riddle that a few of the hardware gurus had... something about 8bits I know that. |
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