Introduction
I'm one of those (almost) mid-thirty guys part-time returning to the Amiga after being away for about 5 to 6 years. Up until 2001-ish I used the Amiga on a daily base (from 1991 until 2000 full-time running an A3000 with, in the end, a PicassoIV, from 2000 on a A4000T (with that same PicassoIV and 68040/25 processorboard) for all my computing needs: Surfing the net, playing Formula One Grand Prix, Slamtilt and doing the occasional pixel-painting. So far the lame introduction
The real question
Years ago unfortunately (but understandable) Village Tronic decided to no longer produce brilliant hardware for the Amiga. The Voodoo add-on for the PicassoIV was the last (almost ready) hardware they created. One of the forums I was visiting frequently back then was Amiga Format's buletin and it was them (I think) who put up a petition to get Village Tronic to grant a license to DCE to keep producing the brilliant hardware. And that's where my question is going to ('Finally' I hear you sigh... ;-)): Does any of you recall such a petition and, more importantly, was it ever followed up? What were the reasons for NOT granting the license?
Why this question
I'm asking this question because I'd love to see another production run of the PicassoIV (and the add-on modules). I guess there might still be some market for it (despite the Mediator PCI interfaces) as I see bare PicassoIVs on eBay passing for more than 100 euro.
If this is in the wrong forum please feel free to put it into the right one.
