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