Question: Why no new memory expansion cards?

[alexh]

There is a small demand for this product. Enough to boost the prices for individual sales on ebay. The demand is from people who do not have an accelerator which takes RAM and people for which 146Mbytes is not enough.

This is just a handful of Amiga users. Certainly not enough to produce a product at a sensible price with profit which would cover the R&D and initial product run.

Most people just wait till they have a bit more money and then buy an accelerator with a RAM interface.

The cost differential between a new Zorro RAM card and a second hand Apollo 4040 is almost non.

Separate the Amiga users who have a Zorro III capable Amiga, then separate out those who do not have an accelerator with RAM, then separate out those who want more RAM, it's not that many.

[alexh]

The market gets even smaller when you consider there are alternatives to a DKB3128.

Fastlane SCSI card, 64Mbytes RAM. These can usually be bought for about £70. They are not available new but one comes up on Ebay ever 2-3 weeks.

Zorro II SCSI card, 8Mbytes RAM. Again only second hand but these are about £10-20 and there is usually one or two on ebay every week.

82Mbytes or even 26Mbytes of RAM isnt too bad for an A4000. Enough for most games and demo's ;-)