Another Deneb production run?

[TheBilgeRat]

Mods, please move if this is wrong area for hardware speculation.

Anyone know if there is going to be another run of Deneb?  Vesalia is out with no estimated receipt date, and Amigakit has pulled them down entirely.

[TheBilgeRat]

Well, dangnabit.  An XSurf would be nice, but they're rarer than denebs and already fetch crazy prices.  I think its going to have to be natami or nothing anymore.

There should be some method of doing group buy and small production run since the hardware is proven...

[TheBilgeRat]

Ah well.  Its sad, but I seem to put more and more weight on hopefully NAtami making it to prime time.  Mainly in the hopes that I can finally snag some older hardware at less than "bend you over a chair" prices.

[TheBilgeRat]

Just why do you think there won't be anything new on the horizon?

Not to be cranky, but why would anyone bother with R&D on some new widget when its infinitely cheaper to re-run a proven design?  We'd all love to see some uber-awesome graphics/usb/net/sound all in one card with perhaps an 060 glued to its bottom, but the likelihood of that seems very slim, even with a wizard such as yourself designing cool stuff.

There needs to be a new model on how to build stuff for the retro community where the companies realize this isn't some ticket to the gravy train of profitability or the resurrection of "teh truu amieega", just some folks making awesome stuff for a dinosaur of a computer one order at a time.