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Amiga computer related discussion => Recommended Amiga Dealers => Topic started by: Marcb on August 31, 2008, 12:48:01 AM
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I know he isn't strictly a dealer but I thought he deserved a good rap anyway.
I emailed Jens just over a week ago with a problem I was having with my Buddha cards in my 3000.
Given the impending release of the scandoubler/flickerfixer for the 1200 I didn't actually expect to hear back from him for a while as I thought he would be inundated with e-mails at the moment.
I didn't check my e-mails for a few days ( I often leave it for weeks between checks, I'm lazy) but when I did, lo and behold Jens had answered me the next day.
Not only did he answer my e-mail but even when it became evident that there was nothing wrong with the Buddha cards, he continued to try and help me.
I was impressed by his generosity with his time and what seemed to me like a genuine desire to help me even though the problem had nothing to do with the Buddhas, it's this kind of attitude from people in the Amiga community that makes it so different from any other hobby/obsession, people here and in the other Amiga forums are genuinely interested in sharing their knowledge and helping a less informed person like me!
Well done Jens, you've made a loyal customer out of me!
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JENS is the MAN! I had purchased a Buddha earlier this year, and then a X-Surf. There was some sort of conflict with the two (Both were his products) and he sent me out a replacement MACH chip right away. I'm also a customer for life for Individual Computers!
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Phew! When I saw your post title I was worried something bad had happened to him!
Yes, Jens is great. When I bought my Buddha the install disk was corrupt. I emailed him for some advice and within a couple of hours he sent me a link to download an ADF of the install disk!
A great guy who designs and markets great products. We're lucky to have him and the few others like him as that's what keeps the Amiga alive.
I'm looking forward to my new Catweasel PC soon.
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Sorry for the thread hi-jack but how do I make the buddha pop up not appear on bootup? :)
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CaptChaos wrote:
Sorry for the thread hi-jack but how do I make the buddha pop up not appear on bootup? :)
That's a good question, I should have asked Jens that! :lol:
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CaptChaos wrote:
Sorry for the thread hi-jack but how do I make the buddha pop up not appear on bootup? :)
Reset the MEDITATION datatype from TRANSENDENTAL to OFF.
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I'll just confirm what Marcb said. When I had problems with my Catweasel, I emailed Jens (not knowing how busy he is) asking for support. And I got it: he was more than helpful, replied quickly , was very polite and professional.
Thumbs up for this guy.
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Ditto, also had some issues with my Catweasel ages ago and got nothing but helpful responses (and a fix to the problems) - can't recommend highly enough.
- Ali
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I have many of Jens Schonfeld's products and have met him at AmiWest 2006.
He is obviously a very talented "Individual" (pun intended) and we could use a couple dozen more just like him working on projects for the Amiga community.
I wish I had half of his talent, but of course you all know that comments like these and yours above only make his enormous ego swell to even more dangerous proportions. :lol:
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I can't say anything bad about the guy. He's great! We've even spent time chatting about tragic amiga accidents we've had. He is an example of what's good about our community.
I'm really looking forward to the Clone-A!
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Methuselas wrote:
I can't say anything bad about the guy. He's great! We've even spent time chatting about tragic amiga accidents we've had. He is an example of what's good about our community.
I'm really looking forward to the Clone-A!
Yeah me too! Clone-A is the only reason i never got a minimig. Any (VERY ROUGH) date yet?
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he is awesome...
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Jen's... I think you've pulled!
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Same to me, his Amiga products are great, his support is fast, helpfull and reliable. I can't wait to grab my hands over his New Indivision 1200 AGA SD/FF.
I didn't buy a Minimig for the same reason, I really wait the Clone-A who is a true cycle by cycle clone of a A500 like this you can forget the software compatibility problems...
I have several Amiga piece of hardware from Individual Computers and I never been disapointed by it!
But if Jens is great, we mustn't forget other people like Michael Böhmer from E3B because he also works hard and his DENEB card is brillant!
If we had more poeple like this in the scene that allready understood that it's more productive to working together instead people who still want to make money with the Amiga name trademark...
But I would like to know what kind of other electronic devices application developpement his working on because it's not with our market that he will be able to survive (a complete electronic labo is very expensive, such like Digital Analyser, smd reworks equipement, etc..)
I think that we works on his Amiga project as a part time hobby.
Hope one day, I can visit him because I stay not so faraway from Aachen.
Anyway thanks to all people who still aboard...
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Yep, if we had a few more like him then we'd all be happy campers :idea:
:-D
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Cycle perfect amiga clones ftw o/
:lol:
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I've had a few interactions with Jens and I always found him to be helpful and generous. I get the feeling he really enjoys what he does which is probably as good an explanation as any as to why he's successful doing it.
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Does anyone know whether the Clone-A will implement the AGA chipset ?
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AFAIK, no.
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Jens, if you are reading this entertaining thread about yourself, I have a question.
Are you coming to AmiWest 2008 next month? We all would love to see what, if any progress has been made on your Clone-A project and congratulate you on producing the Indivision AGA scandoublers many of us will be purchasing at the show from AmigaKit! :-D
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pan1k wrote:
JENS is the MAN! I had purchased a Buddha earlier this year, and then a X-Surf. There was some sort of conflict with the two (Both were his products) and he sent me out a replacement MACH chip right away.
AHA - I got the buddha more or less by mistake (mine) and did not really need it. So when I stuck in the x-surf.. zip/nada.. I did not pay much attention to it and put the buddha in storage.
Is that "MACH" chip for the Buddha or the x-surf ? As I would not mind putting the Buddha back in with a 2gb CF card
ta
Tom UK
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I recognized Jens work for Amiga community. Great products. But the last two times I sended messages with questions about his products I get no answer. I thought that is about less time available due his work.
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We certainly need more info on Clone-A.
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Long ago I contacted him asking if it would be possible to disable FIFO on HyperCOM 3+ (as it prevents most serial devices from working properly, such as mice, graphics tablets etc. - what else would anyone connect to serial port anyway?)
As that seriously dictates what can and can't be done with the product, I expected it to be available as an option, but was as default on.
Anyway, the answer was that it cannot be disabled. He adviced me to buy similar Individual Computers product instead, that connects to the clockport.
Which I didn't. I bought a second hand A2232 which works liek a charm, and serial ports work as expected (data sent as received, and not delayed by FIFO buffer). Hypercom is in my closet, as it turned out to be a totally useless product.
Earlier I had bought Deathbed Vigil NTSC DVD. Back then I had only PS2 which refused to play it, which I assumed to be becouse it was a DVD-r disc (as PS2 has problems with low quality pressed discs aswell)
Anyway, few years later I bought a proper DVD player, and it still refused to play. Not long after I also bought a DVD drive, and it refused to read on that aswell. Anyway, contacted Jens again, as the original is "only DVD-r", I thought maybe I could get a replacement copy for postage or something. Anyway, he promised to give me a lousy 10e discount of new PAL version :-P
Luckily I postponed the purchase of Catweasel PCI untill he dropped the support for MorphOS for issues totally unrelated to the MorphOS development team.
So lots of disappointments for me. But on the other hand, even if boycotting would seem a right thing to do sometimes, he just happens to also be the only manufacturer of many interesting devices, such as MMC Replay. At least I have learned to be a bit more careful when dealing with Individual Computers devices (in which I failed with MMC Replay, as it later turned out that the "old" ethernet expansion doesn't physically fit the device)
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amigadave wrote:
Jens, if you are reading this entertaining thread about yourself, I have a question.
Are you coming to AmiWest 2008 next month? We all would love to see what, if any progress has been made on your Clone-A project and congratulate you on producing the Indivision AGA scandoublers many of us will be purchasing at the show from AmigaKit! :-D
Jens will be at AmiWest next month.
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jrfjunior wrote:
I recognized Jens work for Amiga community. Great products. But the last two times I sended messages with questions about his products I get no answer. I thought that is about less time available due his work.
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Often it is better to ask general questions to a dealer or the community. Jens is indeed extremely busy, he tries to answer all direct questions but sometimes time does not permit.
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Jupp3 wrote:
Earlier I had bought Deathbed Vigil NTSC DVD. Back then I had only PS2 which refused to play it, which I assumed to be becouse it was a DVD-r disc (as PS2 has problems with low quality pressed discs aswell)
Anyway, few years later I bought a proper DVD player, and it still refused to play. Not long after I also bought a DVD drive, and it refused to read on that aswell. Anyway, contacted Jens again, as the original is "only DVD-r", I thought maybe I could get a replacement copy for postage or something. Anyway, he promised to give me a lousy 10e discount of new PAL version :-P
This will tell you why: Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_codes)
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Jupp3 wrote:
Long ago I contacted him asking if it would be possible to disable FIFO on HyperCOM 3+ (as it prevents most serial devices from working properly, such as mice, graphics tablets etc. - what else would anyone connect to serial port anyway?)
As that seriously dictates what can and can't be done with the product, I expected it to be available as an option, but was as default on.
Anyway, the answer was that it cannot be disabled. He adviced me to buy similar Individual Computers product instead, that connects to the clockport.
Which I didn't. I bought a second hand A2232 which works liek a charm, and serial ports work as expected (data sent as received, and not delayed by FIFO buffer). Hypercom is in my closet, as it turned out to be a totally useless product.
Ummm... Back when the HyperCOM was designed, the serial port was an important port for communications - I know I used both ports at high speed, one for a modem, one for a null-modem network to a PC, and the HyperCOM's FIFO buffer was great to have, not to mention the second parallel port! I never wanted to connect a mouse to it, seeing as the internal serial port would be fast enough for that kind of device, and anyway, my Amiga has a dedicated mouse port :-P
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Thanks everyone!
I do try to help where I can, but I can't of course be everybody's darling. Just today, I had a guy who was asking for Indivision AGA as if it was vapourware, because his reseller didn't send it to him yet (how could he, they're in transit *to* the resellers!). This guy preferred to call me a jerk because I called him imaptient, and I have asked him to please not buy my product.
Yes, I will be at Amiwest this year; I'll be on holidays for the first time in four years. All other trips were jet-set-like "arrive, be at the show, fly back home", so I could not really relax. This year I'll tour the Nevada desert with a friend (who BTW also has an Amiga history - he wrote the multidisk.device for the Amiga-Catweasel), visit a few national parks, then head over to California to visit my friend Chris Hülsbeck and on the last weekend we're in Sacramento for the Amiwest show.
Those of you who were at Amiwest 2006 also got to know Oliver, who is the main developer of Clone-A. Since this is not just "my" but strictly "our" baby, I will neither show, nor talk about Clone-A. Oliver and I will be doing this together. However, the next news release for Clone-A is still a few months away, because it is changing almost weekly. Let me just translate what I wrote yesterday night in a German forum:
The release of Indivision AGA gives a hint at the video-output-unit of Clone-A, with Clone-A requiring more features than Indivision AGA offers.
Please be patient - it'll be worth waiting for. And I have other projects, too. One of them will be revealed at Back in time live in Stockholm this saturday.
Jens
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Thanks for the update Jens and enjoy your holiday.
Why is it I can just picture you backpacking in a remote, uninhabited area of the Nevada desert where you come across a strange, geeky looking guy in an Amiga t-shirt who says "Hi, when is the Clone A due?". ;-)
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Schoenfeld wrote:
The release of Indivision AGA gives a hint at the video-output-unit of Clone-A, with Clone-A requiring more features than Indivision AGA offers.
That brings a smile to my face! :-o Let me be the first to thank you for all your hard work.
Have a great, much-needed vacation, Jens.
-M
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Schoenfeld wrote:
This year I'll tour the Nevada desert with a friend (who BTW also has an Amiga history - he wrote the multidisk.device for the Amiga-Catweasel), visit a few national parks, then head over to California to visit my friend Chris Hülsbeck and on the last weekend we're in Sacramento for the Amiwest show.
If you're visiting southern Nevada, may I suggest a visit to Rhyolite ghost town (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyolite,_Nevada)... just a few miles outside of Beatty, north of Vegas. Amazing place to spend a few hours.
Another link with more pics:
http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nv/rhyolite.html
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Mr. Schönfeld
Looking at the specs of the indivision, it has 16 megs of vram(?) and has a throughput of 300+ mbp's does this mean its not "just" a doubler and more like a strap-on gfx card to either assist or take over video processing?
Cheers
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Hi Jens,
Thanks for this update and for all your devotion for the Amiga and C64 community!
I'm sure that you will enjoy your holiday and I hope that you will have great time with Chris Hülsbeck and Olivier.
Is this Oliver Kastl the great author of Clone CD and Clone DVD.The man behind IDE-Fix?
I will enjoy soon my Indivision 1200 AGA SD/FF and if Santa will be able to bring me an A-Clone under my Christmast tree that will be awesome!
But I think I made a good choice to wait about A-Clone instead rush for MiniMig (but the MiniMig is a good prodject and it get updated regulary too).
But I think that it's definetly more interesting to implement a complete A500 into an highend FPGA Logic unit because the market exist and it's much large and profitable than our geek gadget community...
That's why the NATAMI project have the same goal...
And the C64 DCTV, is a vey good example and it let the door open for custom hack like add an external keyboard, two joystick and two floppy drive...
But it's a really harder challenge to convert a full A500 system into an FPGA than its older brother C64.
Have great Fun
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TorajaBoy:
Oliver Kastl has left the Amiga for good. The man on Clone-A is Oliver Achten, who also made MMC64, large parts of MMC Replay and the logic design of Indivision AGA.
Santa might bring you Clone-A, but not this year. And it's not an A500. We only demonstrated parts of Clone-A on an A500 board. Forget anything you might expect. It will be replaced by completely new ideas.
Mike-:
Indivision AGA is not a doubler, but it can be downgraded to a doubler. I only chose the large frame buffer because smaller SD-Ram chips are hard to come by. Lots of the memory is idle and will never be used. Indivision AGA is not designed to replace a gfx card. However, the HighGFX support might give you a nice-enough workbench to forget about a gfx card for a while.
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Thanks for the ghost town link!
Jens
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Thanks Jens.
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Methuselas wrote:
Schoenfeld wrote:
The release of Indivision AGA gives a hint at the video-output-unit of Clone-A, with Clone-A requiring more features than Indivision AGA offers.
That brings a smile to my face! :-o Let me be the first to thank you for all your hard work.
Have a great, much-needed vacation, Jens.
-M
So, if its not an A500, and it requires more features than Indivision AGA offers.... It means that *AT LEAST*, it replicates the AGA chipset - er, what do you guys think? Must be at least an A4000 :-D
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Everblue wrote:
... er, what do you guys think? Must be at least an A4000 :-D
Triple A+ chipset and some, with full compatibility with all models? :-D
Exciting days people :-o
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Krusher wrote:
Triple A+ chipset and some, with full compatibility with all models? :-D
Exciting days people :-o
Heh. I'm expecting warp coils, transporter rigs, anti-matter accelerators and a neural interface!
Jens, when are you going to make me a Cranial Deck Implant! :crazy:
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Methuselas wrote:
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Heh. I'm expecting warp coils, transporter rigs, anti-matter accelerators and a neural interface!
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Heh, with that Large Hadrol Collidor running now, anything is possible, even shrinking the Earth to about an inch, because of black holes :-D :-D :lol:
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Krusher wrote:
Heh, with that Large Hadrol Collidor running now, anything is possible, even shrinking the Earth to about an inch, because of black holes :-D :-D :lol:
Oh, I know! That's one place in the world I would absolutely *LOVE* to go. I read an article about it and they were saying that it's the largest particle accelerator in the world. Supposedly, you can see collisions between particles, but it's so fast, you have to see it on stop-motion cameras.
We, as a civilization, really need to move to a better and cleaner form of power. I can't believe that America is still reliant on coal on a massive scale.
Pathetic. :-?
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Methuselas wrote:
... I read an article about it and they were saying that it's the largest particle accelerator in the world. ...
Just an article? It was all around the news (tv and papers) Oh well, I guess you guys are more into the elections these days (Go Obama!) and 11/9. A lot of movies and documentaries here.
It is the largest one in the world, it took 'bout 27 years to build and it got some controversy along the way, supposedly it could build a black hole large enough to shrink the Earth (yeah right, they even't started the collisions, and they are -near- light speed, not even AT light speed. And then the mass they inject is stupid tiny to even sustain any black hole.
I'd rather bet on a new Amiga then this project swallowing up Earth :lol:
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I have zero interest in American politics as of now....Besides, I moved to a new district and missed my window to declare myself and get a new registration card. I could claim out-of-district, but I have no love really, for either candidate. We're in a better position with Obama, naturally and I think it's time that we had a black president instead of a "southern gentleman".
I saw a documentary on Discovery Channel about it and then read an article on it. The thing that tripped me out about it, is where it was built. :-o I don't know if I'd want that thing in my backyard! I don't remember correctly, but isn't that thing 50Km in diameter or something?
@Jens,
Sorry to hijack your thread, but this is a particle accelerator, we're talking about here. You're still just as cool. :-D
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Jupp3 wrote:
Earlier I had bought Deathbed Vigil NTSC DVD. Back then I had only PS2 which refused to play it, which I assumed to be becouse it was a DVD-r disc (as PS2 has problems with low quality pressed discs aswell)
Anyway, few years later I bought a proper DVD player, and it still refused to play. Not long after I also bought a DVD drive, and it refused to read on that aswell. Anyway, contacted Jens again, as the original is "only DVD-r", I thought maybe I could get a replacement copy for postage or something. Anyway, he promised to give me a lousy 10e discount of new PAL version
This will tell you why:
Hmm, I didn't know it had region coding? It's pretty stupid idea anyway, especially for really small product runs.
...Which Deathbed Vigil definitely is, compared to major blockbusters. And it was first available only as NTSC anyway, so no use restricting it to "US watchers and people with region free players only" - which is "mostly everyone" anyway :-)
Being PAL or NTSC doesn't have ANYTHING to do with optional regional coding that DVD discs can have.
Also, there are NTSC releases both as R1 and R2, and I guess PAL discs are also released with seweral different regional codings.
To be honest, if it was region coded, I probably wouldn't have even noticed it (or on second thought I might have, as with Playstation 2, I have to boot !=R2 discs with RegionX. )
But as I said, the disc didn't work, instead of getting "Wrong region" (aka "use better player") requester, that you can still get on some rare DVD players (most are region free nowadays)