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Quote from: Lurch;697810
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.


if the guy doing the work wants paid for his effort then deal with it. if you don't like his price then do without. we don't have the advantage of building this cost into the hardware purchase price like amd and nvidia do. also realize that ms does not write drivers, amd and nvidia do. if we have someone willing to do it all for free then lucky us.

have they even given a price yet?

the forefront driver was not a charity project either. you'd have to ask Joshua how much we got overall, but i certainly don't feel rich for it. Joshua did more of the programming so deserves more of the $$. i personally got a dinner and reimbursed for a prometheus card, full stop. i bought my xe. i bought my collection of radeons. i bought my csppc card. i wouldn't expect to pay a lot for a graphics driver (and never bought cybergraphics for my picassoiv as it was too expensive for a driver) but it's nice to get a little help toward all that hardware to buy.
« Last Edit: June 24, 2012, 11:46:39 PM by billt »
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Re: A-EON Technology secures graphic card support for AmigaOS 4
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2012, 11:04:53 PM »
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Oh boy so instead of buying a 200$ netbook running windows or linux you'll get to buy a netbook running os4 for probably 5 times that price.

I just paid $2000 for a PC laptop a couple days ago. And that's AFTER a student discount of about $500.

I thought we were directed to expect the netbook to be about $500... I'd happily pay that. but what's any of this have to do with Hans's drivers?
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