There is clear demand for the Subway but apperently not enough to justify another production run at the momentan on top the creator Michael Böhmer is currently busy with his studies I believe.
Well. Maybe I should give some comments on this:
Yes, I am quite busy at university at the moment.
Anyhow, I could start production as soon as I see a clear demand for boards. Unfortunately the producer of the chip (Transdimension) is pushing his new chipset (the one used on ALGOR) and has raised prices for the former one (used on SUBWAY and HIGHWAY). This makes it harder to buy a bunch of chips, get a small number of boards produced and throw away the rest of the chips.
Moreover, the clockport market has been disturbed quite a lot with the announcement of UltraBUS over 1 and a half year before - without any UltraBUS being available up to now. As nobody knows about the status of this project (last news update on UltraBUS pages older than one year) it adds additional risk to production, as nobody knows what happens if I start a new production run and announce it.
Shortly said: if enough people (about 50) give me a clear (and I mean: a trustworth) sign of interest in acquiring a SUBWAY card, the problem of availability will be solved soon.
I will make an official announcement for this issue the next days on the news pages. You know that E3B never has used presubscription or anything like this to sell things which are not produced yet, and so we will do this time; that's why I said trustworth interest. I think paying before production is not what many Amigians still trust.
Michael
P.S.: I guess we will see some comments from Mr. Rat aka Tjaoz aka ElBugs here on this message... treat them with the necessary attitude :-)
