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[News] Advent season at individual ComputersANN.lu
Posted on 10-Dec-2003 15:41 GMT by Jens Schönfeld13 comments
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Special price for X-Surf 2
Kickflash in production
Deathbed Vigil DVD now available in PAL
Fresh 5,25 inch disks with 48TPI
Special price for the X-Surf 2
The advent season has already begun at our trade partners, now we want to announce it officially again: Participating resellers have the X-Surf 2 networking card for 69,90 EUR. This price is also valid for direct orders. You're saving 20,- EUR compared to the recommended retail price, but only until december 31st!

Kickflash in production
Kickflash OS4 which has been announced in June is now in production. It's going to be available starting december 22nd - if the parcel services work fast enough, this might be in time for Christmas Eve! Kickflash reduces the boot-time of classic Amigas dramatically, because it gets rid of all the reboots that today's Amigas have to do. Romupdates ("setpatch"), every resident-capable program, Blitzkick-modules and tools like Prepareemul (Macmem) can be stored in the 1M flash memory. They're executed without reboots on a cold start of the Amiga. Price: 34,90 EUR.

Deathbed Vigil DVD now in PAL
By the end of next week, we expect a shipment from Dave Haynie. The DVD of his film "Deathbed Vigil" is now available in PAL video norm, and is shipped on a DVD-R. This format can be played back on nearly all players in Europe, and should be a lot more compatible than the NTSC-DVD+R that were only available for a long time. The price per DVD is 39,- EUR, and Dave has promised to sign each cover again.

Fresh 5.25 inch disks with 48TPI
We have produced disks in the USA for the European retro-computing fans. For a lot of years, disks of the 5,25 inch size were available in nearly every store, but since more than one year, all inventories are sold out. Trying to use 96TPI or 135TPI disks is not always successful, because the heads of Commodore and Apple drives are only made for 48TPI. Other disks have errors, or seem to lose data for no appearent reason.
We have found a company in California that has started the production machines for us. To get the disks to Germany at a reasonable price, we found a complicated but cheap way to transport them: First by train nearly 3000 miles to New York, then by ship to Antwerp, and the last part to Aachen by truck. Starting december 17th, we can offer 25 disks DS SD (48TPI) without envelopes, with stickers at a price of 9,90 EUR!
Advent season at individual Computers : Comment 1 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Matt Parsons on 10-Dec-2003 15:45 GMT
Finally!!! I've been waiting for the PAL Deathbed for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages :-)
Advent season at individual Computers : Comment 2 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Shaft on 10-Dec-2003 16:45 GMT
This is one cool company - the OS4 Flash Memory seems like a really nifty device, and I have to say I really enjoy the idea of having totally fresh, hot-out-of-the-oven 5.25" floppies!

Jens, keep up the good work! I'm looking forward to the Commodore One (crossing my fingers there will eventually be an Mini-ITX version as well, as it would be really cool having two identical Mini-ITX cases, one containing the Commodore One and the other containing the Amiga One Lite).

Seasons greetings!
Advent season at individual Computers : Comment 3 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Sigbjørn Skjæret on 10-Dec-2003 17:47 GMT
BTW, unless you are marketing towards Christians only I suggest you use a more generic term instead of Advent .. like f.ex. Yuletide or Holiday Season... ;)


- CISC
Advent season at individual Computers : Comment 4 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Darth_X on 10-Dec-2003 18:14 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Sigbjørn Skjæret):
Being Ann.lu, maybe the term 'Troll ingathering season' could be used ;)
Advent season at individual Computers : Comment 5 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Faher Xmas (and his fat sack full of AmigaOnes) on 10-Dec-2003 19:52 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Sigbjørn Skjæret):
Erm wasn't Xmas a christian celebration?

Political Correctness sucks! :-(
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Posted by Anonymous on 10-Dec-2003 20:02 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Faher Xmas (and his fat sack full of AmigaOnes)):
"Erm wasn't Xmas a christian celebration?"

Erm, no. It was originally a Pagan festival, which was hijacked by the Christians during the time they were trying to force everyone to follow their particular brand of fairy tale.
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Posted by Fluke Slystalker on 10-Dec-2003 20:12 GMT
OK, so now you can't even talk about christmas any longer? Does every thread here have to contain at least one whining puppy??!
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Posted by smithy on 10-Dec-2003 20:52 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Anonymous):
>Erm, no. It was originally a Pagan festival, which was hijacked by the
>Christians during the time they were trying to force everyone to follow their
>particular brand of fairy tale.

That's not quite true either. Modern day Christianity was created by the Roman Emperor Constantine. After centuries of being a pagan empire that persecuted Christians, Constantine decided to end it. Over time he slowly moulded Roman-Paganism to be more like Christianity - festival dates from both religions were changed or merged, great figures from both appeared, and so on. The birth of Christ was supposedly nowhere near December 24th, it is a Pagan festival (forgotten its name) that was around this time - though not on the 24th. Angels, the very symbols of Christianity are actually Pagan. While Halloween, supposedly very Pagan, actually originates from Christianity.

Today's Christianity is nothing like the "real" (pre-Constantine) Christianity, just like today's Paganism is nothing like the "real" (pre-Constantine) Paganism. Today's religion that we call Christianity is just a merging of the two. It's unlikely we'll ever know what the "pure" forms of either religion are.
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Posted by smithy on 10-Dec-2003 20:56 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Matt Parsons):
>Finally!!! I've been waiting for the PAL Deathbed for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages :-)

Me too! I've been trying to get a hold of this for years!
Advent season at individual Computers : Comment 10 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Thomas Wurgler/Pagan on 11-Dec-2003 07:08 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Sigbjørn Skjæret):
Well, Yuletide wouldn't really be much better now, would it? ;)

Yeah, I do realize the slight irony (me posting it and all).

I guess the only safe way to do this is to say: Happy #?
Advent season at individual Computers : Comment 11 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by takemehomegrandma on 11-Dec-2003 08:28 GMT
> Fresh 5.25 inch disks with 48TPI

:-O

BTW, does anyone know if new 5.25 floppy drives (capable of reading C64 disks together with the Catweasel III) are available today from some odd company on this planet?
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Posted by Darth_X on 11-Dec-2003 11:27 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (takemehomegrandma):
I would like to acquire a new 5.25" drive as well.

Any idea on what company is manufacturing the 5.25" 48tpi floppies?
Advent season at individual Computers : Comment 13 of 13ANN.lu
Posted by Darth_X on 15-Dec-2003 22:11 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Darth_X):
OK, I just won a bid for a 5.25" floppy drive on ebay (good place to look)
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