a user have to buy driver video for the graphic card?

Important bounty would be reached in few time and everyone knows here, btw it is funny how the previous driver package was free of cost - for the customers - from acube and this driver also work for the X-1000 but now all the non x-1000 users have to pay for a driver video..

it's only useful if you plan on buying a newer gfx card

3D drivers will be with OS4.2, this is a 2D driver

(They could easily have made them exclusive to the X1000.)

left out the entire discussion... But how and why then can esaly left out ALL the Amiga OS users releasing that drivers only for about 3/5% of the users????? Thayt's really nonsense sorry... Regarding Hans spoke I can get its point(also condivide his point of view reading its post on HDRLab) however the main problem was that A-Eon have press release the news as a milestone for Amiga users asking them to pay again(yes again) for an unfinished product... I think that eas really better if: - Was Hyperion to press release that(Hyperion will develop AmigaOS4.x not A-Eon that develop HW)... - made some sort of paymnet Update to support that instead of asking money alone...really a much elegant way... Sorry if I wasnt a "good news" only user...

i honestly do not understand why put money into 2D Drivers (that are not complete) while Picasso96 (that is a requirement for 2d drivers to work at the best) is very very old and need to be rewritten from scratch.. I would pay for Picasso instead of having a partial 2d driver that cannot reach all the speed of the board for many reasons, one is Picasso96..Imho..

It is more than a bad joke, because how a Sam460ex user buy the drivers to the competence? if there is to pay for the Hans the Ruiter's job I prefer to pay him directly, because here A-Eon cans make a list to users that we don't buy the X-1000 but we need the 3d drivers

Acube well, they don't fullfil the promise the a good 3d drivers for theirs Sams,

the payment is more single to pay to drivers creator and motivate him to continue the develop

Now to clarify a few things. Firstly, the agreement reached with ACube was only ever meant to be a stop-gap measure while we wait for AmigaOS 4.2. The RadeonHD driver isn't part of AmigaOS 4.1, but releasing the Sam460ex without being able to use PCI-Express cards would have been silly. It was meant to deliver a usable 2D driver. We've been very clear that 3D support won't be until AmigaOS 4.2.

ACube was very careful with what they promised, and they have delivered on what they promised. Overlay and 3D support were never included. I am truly sorry if you bought a Sam460ex under the impression that free updates all the way to 3D support were promised. However, that impression is of your own making. We did our best to make this clear, so it's sad that people didn't get the message.

@all

Looks like this has caused quite a bit of excitement.

For those questioning why they need to pay for the driver, I suggest that you read the latest RadeonHD driver development log post. I've included some background information that should help.

Now to clarify a few things. Firstly, the agreement reached with ACube was only ever meant to be a stop-gap measure while we wait for AmigaOS 4.2. The RadeonHD driver isn't part of AmigaOS 4.1, but releasing the Sam460ex without being able to use PCI-Express cards would have been silly. It was meant to deliver a usable 2D driver. We've been very clear that 3D support won't be until AmigaOS 4.2.

ACube was very careful with what they promised, and they have delivered on what they promised. Overlay and 3D support were never included. I am truly sorry if you bought a Sam460ex under the impression that free updates all the way to 3D support were promised. However, that impression is of your own making. We did our best to make this clear, so it's sad that people didn't get the message.

About overlay, it is a nice to have feature, but the system will operate just fine without it. It was also never promised in a free update. More imporatntly, it is obsolete. Textured-video is where it's at now, and yes, that is planned for some point in the future. Exactly when I cannot say though.

Some people seem to think that AmigaOne-X1000 users are getting a free ride while Sam460ex users are footing the bill. Let me assure you that AmigaOne-X1000 users have definitely payed for their license. They bought a license for AmigaOS 4.2 when they purhcased their machine, and so this will be delivered to them. This also includes the RadeonHD driver, up-to and including the 3D enabled version that the Gallium3D drivers need. Sam460ex users, on the other hand, have not paid for this.


I agree that the situation isn't ideal, but it is the best path forward. It is the best that I could have hoped for given the current situation. We have two options, free everything that takes forever to develop, or a funded scheme that delivers software in a much more acceptable time-frame. The more funding is available, the faster the progress that the whole AmigaOS development team can deliver. It's that simple. I hope that you will see it that way too, and will continue to support the entire development team. Everyone is working as hard as they can manage.

Having support for some of the latest graphics cards availiable in a niche OS really is quite an achievement. I'm really looking forward to AmigaOS 4.2.

Hans