Mediator PCI USB drivers for Poseidon stack [11 September 2002] Elbox Computer is pleased to announce that its drivers to PCI USB cards in the Mediator busboard operate under the Poseidon USB stack.

These drivers have been prepared by Elbox programmers as a result of co-operation started a few weeks ago by Chris Hodges, author of the Poseidon stack. As the Poseidon stack is already supported by authors of third-party commercial software, we have decided that releasing another, our own, USB stack for Amiga under such circumstances would mean doubling effort of Amiga programmers.

We are sure that high-quality software included in the Poseidon stack package and our hardware-optimised drivers resulting in high performance achieved by PCI USB cards in Mediator will satisfy even the most demanding users.

The unregistered, time-limited version of the Poseidon USB stack will be available in the Mediator Multimedia CD. Registration of the Poseidon stack for Mediator users will be provided by Chris Hodges.

About Poseidon: The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with USB interface, ranging from mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks, printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flash card readers, zip drives, floppy disk drives, harddisks, memory sticks, ethernet adapters, scanners and audio adapters to less common things like power supplies, GPS location devices or finger print readers. It is intended to be a solution for all systems.

For more info about Poseidon stack please visit Chris Hodges' website.

About Mediator: The Mediator PCI busboard line is designed so as to enable expanding the Amiga computers with a wide range of standard PCI cards like Graphic cards, Ethernet and Fast Ethernet network cards, Modem cards, ISDN cards, USB and SCSI cards, Sound cards and Multimedia cards: TV tuner and MPEG-2 hardware decoders. Expanding the Amiga with the Mediator PCI busboard opens the way to employing the power of the latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors in Amiga, around which SharkPPC and SharkPPC+ cards are based.

For more info about Mediator please visit Elbox website. Mariusz Wloczysiak ELBOX COMPUTER,

Press Department contact: press@elbox.com

Source: ann.lu

Hmmmm... Does that mean I could get a PCI USB card for my mediator, buy an USB wheel mouse and then use that ? I'd love to be able to use a wheel mouse with my Amy (I'm using one at work and couldn't live without one anymore).

Don't tell me to get a mouse port adaptor and use it instead, I tried Mroocheck once and couldn't get it to work.

J.

Poseidon's mouse support works beautifully (I use a logitech wheel mouse optical connected by USB all the time on my A3000) but it doesn't support the mouse wheel yet. Any USB mouse you connect acts like a simple two or three button mouse.

One interesting point is that I found the same mouse is much smoother connected via USB rather than through a PS/2 adaptor, I think this is due to USB using a higher "sample rate" (not sure of the correct term).

I believe that Chris Hodges (author of Poseidon) is working on full Human Interface Device drivers which should support more features such as mouse wheels and "multimedia" keyboard buttons.

Robert