EtherNAT is ready! (hurrah!)

[+DarkLord]

I just got the following (great!) news for CT60/Falcon owners:

 

Hi!

 

We're very happy to announce that the ETHERNAT is finally finished!!! The

100Mbit ethernet part is working fine and though we have no finished driver

for the USB part yet, the enumeration test by Jan Thomas shows that it will

work fine once the USB stack has been written (also by Jan). For more

technical details read the (soon available) news on our homepage:

nature.atari.org.

 

Now we need to know exactly how many boards we're going to produce, because

it affects the price we need to ask of you. We have done some more detailed

calculations on the final price. Have a look at this:

 

200 orders => 120 EURO/board

150 orders => 125 EURO/board

100 orders => 138 EURO/board

 

Shipping costs will be added to this. The prices are including Swedish VAT

(25%) and apply for all EU customers except companies that are VAT

registrated in their respective countries.

For all customers outside the EU instead the following prices apply (VAT for

your country will probably be added by your customs):

 

200 orders => 96 EURO/board

150 orders => 100 EURO/board

100 orders => 111 EURO/board

 

HINT: To avoid the 25% Swedish VAT within the EU, let a VAT registrated

company buy all the boards for your country from us and distribute them

within your country. Contact us first if you run a company and want to do

this.

 

Swedish customers may pay us in SEK instead of EURO. More info on that

later.

 

Now please send us an email (to "hencox at hotmail dot com" or "henrik at

gildaelectronics dot se" or "torbjorn at gildaelectronics dot se") and state

exactly how many boards you want. Please don't write anything else, this is

not yet your order! And we want this email even from our closer friends in

the atari community, because we can't be sure that you want a board just

because we know you...

 

We know that we've already asked for your interest in this product several

months ago, but we need to get a fresh picture now.

 

Because Rodolphe Czuba has experienced that 10-20% of all who state that

they will buy a board never goes through with it, please be honest when you

write this email.

 

You have two weeks to register your interest (until August 23rd 2005). After

that we'll post information on how to prepay us for the boards.

 

Regards

Henrik and Torbjörn

[Paolo]

I would say that this is a very bad timeframe for declaring interest, sincfe a HUGe lot of people is away on vacation, and will be approx. the end of August ...

 

I signed for one, BTW...

[krupkaj]

It is great news! I signed for one also.

[+DarkLord]

It is great news! I signed for one also.

907830[/snapback]

 

I posted the message, and neglected to mention that I signed up as well, as I'm sure many have/will. :-)

[danwinslow]

Any word on this?

[+DarkLord]

Any word on this?

 

Dan, I'm sure you've already visited their website, but the latest entry under "News"

I see for May 19th is:

 

"We have now soldered, programmed and tested 12 boards. Out of those only 8 works perfectly. The others either cause the falcon not to start at all or have problems either with the USB part or the ethernet. So you people at the end of our list of orders will unfortunately have to prepare for further delays, since we have to fix each of these boards. Currently we're just taking notes of which boards have problems and take another board instead so that we'll get the first batch ready as soon as possible. We will do the first send out as soon as we have at least 10 working boards (rounded up so that each person gets the correct number of boards)."

 

Still got my fingers crossed.

[Gregory DG]

Sounds cool. Wish I had a Falcon. Or that this worked with a 1040 STe...

[danwinslow]

Yes, I saw that from the 19th.