A-EON Technology secures graphic card support for AmigaOS 4

[Digiman]

Purchase driver updates, you've got to be kidding me. One shouldn't have to pay for drivers.

Insanity, of course there will be people doing it.

I'll be giving Amiga NG a wide berth.

Except that the owners of the x1000 had to pay for them to be produced and not Hyperion so they are within their rights to charge competitor's computer owners for their paid for development work over and above Hyperion's collection of software and drivers included in the OS4 purchase.

But yes this fractured situation is off putting, even before you include ugly old PCs being used for AROS and smelly yellowed overpriced Macs being used for MOS too under the umbrella of Amiga 'Next Gen'

[Digiman]

Working on the OS. In the same way as MS writes an OS, not drivers. And Apple the same. And pretty much every other OS in history...

It's not the OS writer's responsibility to write drivers, it's the OS writer's responsibility to write an API.

Microsoft do sometimes write driver updates though for things like a new OS release to try and con people into *upgrading* from XP but yes generally the actual drivers are written by the company in question or die hard fanatics of unsupported OS.