I received this email:
Hello,
First of all, I wanted to express a big and humble Thank You for
your support.
In response to some questions we received:
- All orders received or will receive a full CD Edition (no
previous version required for installation, even if the
order procedure was referred to as an "Upgrade")
- All CDs are version 6.0.1.0
- There will be, as always, future free upgrades as version 6.X
evolves
The subject line of this email additionally reflects the status
of your order as follows:
- "Boing (Early Bird)" means that you ordered before the
completion of the April 12th upgrade offer mailing (when we
started "counting", so that it would be the same for everyone),
finding the new site and offer yourself, or because you were
among the first to receive the upgrade offer emails. The supply
of Boing ball stickers for all such orders will be honored by
using an extra stock (on top of the 50), meaning that now we are
really, really out of them. All of these orders were unexpected,
thank you very much.
- "Boing (X/50)" where X is a number in the 1 to 50 range
(unique numbers, but in non-sequential order) indicates that you
ordered among the first 50 after the mailing was completely sent
out. As such, it includes a Boing ball sticker as promised.
Thank you for the quick response, and for your support.
- "Thank You (>50)" indicates that we gratefully received more
than 50 orders after the upgrade mailing offer, and we
unfortunately ran out of stock for the Boing ball stickers. A
few of these orders have a Boing ball sticker added at random
(we really only had a handful left). An overwhelming thank you,
to you all.
The special offer ended as announced (yesterday morning, for
most time zones). We started shipping these orders last week,
and some of you probably already received their CD by Priority
Mail. However, I have to admit that the response was more than
we had expected, and as of Friday we had run out of CDs. We are
expecting a new lot tomorrow to complete the shipments. These
should be delivered within 1-2 days in Europe, about 5 days to
North America, and just a little bit longer elsewhere. An
exception to this is Italy, where we have the special
requirement of local "SIAE" registration, which is not yet
complete (we did the deposit, but did not yet receive their
serialized labels). Our mailing did not yet go out to customers
in Italy, pending this procedure. Nevertheless, a handful of you
managed to order from Italy in spite of not having received an
upgrade offer. To try to compensate for this, all customers in
Italy will receive an extra Boing sticker.
Because of your positive response, we are now able to do
something which we hadn't done since version 2.0, and that is
to update the external packaging of Amiga Forever. (As you will
notice, the text on the back of the CD is old, which reflected
the limited resources this project has available.) Thank you for
making this possible.
Given the encouraging feedback on this specific front, we will
also continue our effort to digitize and preserve old Amiga
videos. As a customer who already received his CD just wrote at
ann.lu, "[it] brought a tear to my eye seeing the Amiga 1985
Introduction at Lincoln Center." We are working to bring more of
these feelings back...
Thank you.
:-)
