Beiträge von adtbm im Thema „Production update 29.02.2020 - Meeting with TRENZ our mainboard manufacturer“

    The MEGA65 project is an international project.

    Our team has people around the globe and since we're used to teleconferences for years already, between the individual team members, Corona did not had a chance to stop us, because we were videochatting anyway already.

    Only thing you need to get used to, is to keep in mind the different time zones....

    Hmmm, is Paul already/still awake, what's the time in Adelaide now, or the US east/west coast, etc....

    i.e. my prefered chatting times with Paul are around 3 - 4:00 o'clock in the morning :wink:

    Hi @Rogerv and welcome !

    We've chosen Bitte melde dich an, um diesen Link zu sehen., because of the professionalism they have shown us in the past. It's a trusted partner for our project !

    Since Trenz is also the european Distributor for Bitte melde dich an, um diesen Link zu sehen. i am quite certain, that if the demand for the

    MEGA65 in the states raises above a certain number of machines, that they will look for possibilities for an amercan distributor.

    But at the beginning, we have to start small. (Even if this means, higher shipping costs for our Commodore/MEGA65 fans in the US.

    We are well aware, that the US has a huge Commodore fanbase, that's one of the reasons, why one of our preseries machines is in the US already and will be presented, hopefully in a town near you soon too. Because if you are able to touch and feel the MEGA65, we KNOW, that this person will fall in love with it immediately. (We know this from our own experience ;))

    ZeHa: You are almost right, since Alexander is a M.E.G.A. teammember as well as a Top Donator, we have moved him to the Team column and the number 9 from the Highscore list moved onto the 8th position in the Top Donator list, which is Gurce.


    The person that is entered under place 9, Andreas Nestler, is an employe from Hintsteiner, who cooperated in an incredible way with us, to get all our wishes into the case design. That's how we honor him, because without him, the case also wouldn't have been possible in the way we wanted it to be.

    We can proudly state, that we stood true, to our promised goal, to engrave the Top 8 supporters names forever in the MEGA65 case. (even 9 from the Highscore list)

    Hi wins4

    thanks for asking ! We are fine.

    We are using every free minute to work on the MEGA65 and currently we are also preparing a huge update post, that i'll post within the next couple of days.

    We can say, that everything is in line and within schedule at the moment.

    The final revisions of keyboard, case(s) and mainboard are almost done.

    As soon as we give the GO for the individual production starts, we will announce this here and then we are able to show pictures

    (and hopefully videos) of the production process.

    That was the short version. The long awaited, detailed case funding post with status update is coming soon.

    Hi all,

    on wednesday, the 26. of february, the MEGA65 team had the official meeting with Bitte melde dich an, um diesen Link zu sehen., our mainboard manufacturer.

    Bitte melde dich an, um diesen Anhang zu sehen.

    f.l.t.r.: TRENZ, Detlef "Deft", Antti (TRENZ & MEGA65team), Anton "adtbm", TRENZ, Dieter "dbF"

    We can summarize, that it was a VERY, VERY successfull meeting !

    We have discussed possible, required and neccessarry changes for the Revision 3 of the final MEGA65 mainboard and the next steps to keep in line with our schedule and once more, Trenz showed us, their professionalism during this meeting in regards of this perfect designed pcb and their plans and ideas for the Rev.3 board !

    Trenz was still totally fascinated by the MEGA65 and we are happy by the support they provided and provide to us and of course, they've used the time to play around with the MEGA65.

    They were impressed by the overall quality of the MEGA65, especially of the keyboard and also the case (even if the case is not the final yet :wink: )

    (Yes we're proud of it. we have 3 perfectly designed components (pcb, keyboard, case)

    The best news now: within the next couple of weeks MEGA65 DevKit preorders will start via the TRENZ online shop !!!

    Those are fantastic news, since we've urgently needed a trustworthy and reliable seller for our MEGA65 and since TRENZ produces our mainboard, this fits perfectly ! We are so thankful for all the support Trenz offers us. (They maybe even have a surprise for us in the final revision of the pcb, but more of that, once it's official...)

    (once Trenz is done with implementing all the changes, we will provide you, the community, with all the updates...believe us, only positive. nothing to reduce costs)

    So, while Trenz, is starting now with implementing the final changes, we (MEGA65 team) are almost done with the design change paper for Bitte melde dich an, um diesen Link zu sehen. our case designer, in preparation for the meeting with them. The whole MEGA65 team is amazed, how the final case design will hopefully look like and we have put alot of time and effort in it. (More on that, once Hintsteiner confirms our changes. same as above only increase in quality not reducing costs ! )

    So stay tuned, there are more exciting news upcoming soon !!! regarding our all MEGA65 homecomputer !!!

    :DJ