Dandude,
I cant hope but wonder if you really mean that. What do you mean "SO?" and " I rather not pay a lot more for supporting crackers! NO WAY!" First let me say that
1) you are already paying out your ass for that peice of Amiga hardware from Elbox.
2) If that card fux up in anyway (some hardware does that) then guess what, you will lose you RDB, NOT COOL.
3) Other manufactuers are able to make drivers for their hardware on other platforms that do not trash the system if the said hardware is not the one for that driver software.
In my opinion I think that the Amiga community should get together and create a OPEN SOURCE DRIVER for that Elbox hardware.
I had a friend how use to say "if your going to punish me by sticking the unbrella up my ass, DONT OPEN THE F**KING THING!
AT LEAST I CAN TRY DIFFERENT DRIVERS FOR DIFFERENT HARDWARE ON THE PC WITHOUT LOSING MY WINDOWS OR LINUX BOOT SECTORS.
I AM NOT SURE BUT IN THE PC WORLD THERE IS A VIRUS CALLED THE CHERNOBLE, IT PRETTY MUCH DOES THE SAME THING AS THE ELBOX DRIVER DOES, IT WIPES YOUR BOOT SECTOR AND SOMETIMES YOUR BIOS