Official ELBOX post on mediator with MOS!!!!
  • Just looking around
    Posts: 9 from 2005/8/24
    From: Spain
    We are a hardware company, not a software one. We add AmigaOS support
    for our products.

    As regards other operation systems, we are always opento supply them
    with developer docs for our hardware products.

    The CGX author (one of the main persons in the MOS team) was the first
    developer outside Elbox who received the complete MEDIATOR developer
    docs. In 2000 we supplied him also with the developer's MEDIATOR
    busboard, an Amiga 1200 computer in E/BOX tower with turbo card,
    FastATA controller, a hard disk and other add-ons like e.g. a Voodoo3
    PCI graphic card.
    The developer docs for the FastATA controllers were sent a few years
    ago to another member of the MOS team, who asked us for them.

    As far as MEDIATOR support is concerned, if only AmigaOS emulation in
    this MOS version were done well enough, so that the Picasso 96 system
    can work, you should be able to use our Voodoo drivers (and drivers
    for other PCI cards) for MEDIATOR.

    As BVision is the basic graphic card natively supported in A1200 by
    the current MOS version (AGA is not supported), the easiest way to
    start testing MOS with MEDIATOR would be to add the BVision card to
    your configuration for the test purpose. After the computer start,
    check if the MEDIATOR spaces (PCI memory and I/O) have been properly
    detected by the system (compare the Show config report). If yes, you
    can start checking how the MOS emulation works. If you have an RTL8029
    PCI network card, check if it still works with MediatorNET.device.
    (The pci.library should be switched to the NO_MMU mode and the
    Envarc:Mediator/Emulation variable should be set to Yes.)

    Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need further assistance.

    Thank you for using Elbox's online support services.

    Best regards,

    Support Department of ELBOX COMPUTER
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  • »01.09.05 - 21:30
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  • Just looking around
    Posts: 9 from 2005/8/24
    From: Spain
    Any have MEDIATOR with a BVISION card for test it?
    I don`t have BVISION, (only i have Voodoo 4500 PCI) and i can`t test it if work or not with this ELBOX comment about the MOS/UP + MEDIATOR.

    Thanks
  • »01.09.05 - 21:47
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  • MorphOS Developer
    CISC
    Posts: 619 from 2005/8/27
    From: the land with ...
    Quote:

    As far as MEDIATOR support is concerned, if only AmigaOS emulation in this MOS version were done well enough, so that the Picasso 96 system can work, you should be able to use our Voodoo drivers (and drivers for other PCI cards) for MEDIATOR.


    Like I've said before, this has absolutely nothing to do with emulation .. MorphOS has CGX builtin, and loading P96 on top of that will result in an awful mess that will never work...


    - CISC
  • »01.09.05 - 22:35
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Posts: 109 from 2006/9/10
    *bump*

    According to this report, the RTL8029 PCI network card installed on a Mediator is working without any problem in Morphos Powerup. :-)
  • »07.11.06 - 11:59
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