ELBOX COMPUTER http://www.elbox.com Krakow, 16 March 2001 Elbox dispels the last rumour on Mediator PCI After six months of continuous distribution of Mediator PCI it must be admitted that Mediator PCI has appeared to be a real hit on Amiga market. Huge and still increasing number of Mediator users have an opportunity to appreciate how significantly the possibilities of the computer have grown due to introduction of PCI standard cards to Amiga. Our next step, which is about to take place, is to allow Mediator's users to extend the computer with the new excellent turbo card fitted to Mediator PCI busboard - SharkPPC G3/G4. Those who fail to accept this marvellous product with respect that should undoubtedly be given concerning its design, try to underestimate its unquestionable worth by spreading not true rumour about Mediator. In order to make this situation clear we feel obliged to answer to this rumour. Rumour: If your jumper is set on 8MB and you have 'vertical lines' trashing on the screen, you may have a buggy board. No, it is not the true. The fact of appearing 'vertical lines' on the screen is definitely not the result of any fault of Mediator's board. The presence of 'vertical line' is the result of the hardware protection, which was installed in Mediator's busboards. In order to avoid 'vertical lines' it is enough to set the 'memory window' jumper to 4 MB according to Mediator User's Manual. The hardware protection was designed to enable the sell of commercial software for Mediator's busboard secured by the hardware key, which was supposed to be available together with that software. After the negotiations on WOA 2000 we have changed our plans as far as the distribution of the graphic drivers with full hardware acceleration implemented is concerned. As a result of this decision the protection had been removed from the Mediators that are being sold after the 13th December 2000. We do not plan to offer the upgrade of the MACH chip in which the protection is placed, as in the forthcoming days we are going to release the software for the Mediator which enables the reaching of full busboard's performance independently of the 'memory window' jumper's setting. Joanna Mildner ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department