Actually, EDD files have been fairly hot the last couple of years, because Open Emulator on the Mac can be made to use them by running them through a fairly trivial translation to FDI format. This allows EDD files to be tested (to see if the capture was good) and also allows for booting still-protected disks and cracking them. A great deal of the cracking work by 4am has been done using EDD captures. And the newest version of I'm fEDD Up can a) create FDI files directly (without an additional conversion step), b) grab a disk all at once into RAM if you have enough RAM, which can help with some synchronization issues. The EDD+ cards have been hard to come by, I suspect that if one had been put up for auction a couple of months ago, it would have been snapped up right away. Now, there's a new card on the horizon ("Applesauce") that John Morris is beta testing that will likely supplant the EDD+ card for most of this kind of archiving activity, and there was also I believe going to be a slight revision of the EDD+ card, both probably going to be introduced at KansasFest this year (unless it winds up being scrapped due to the availability of the Applesauce card -- which is basically a Disk-II-to-USB high-frequency sampler in the tradition of DiscFerret, Kryoflux, SuperCardPro, etc.). So, the window for demand for the EDD+ card may be closing, but it would have been of interest fairly recently I believe, and there are probably still people out there interested in having one. It might be worth trying to list the card, soon, it might not be too late. There's been a fair amount of discussion on csa2, Facebook, Twitter, at least, possibly not entirely overlapping communities with here. On csa2 in particular, the discussion winds up wandering off into questions of whether we should be trying to archive everything or not, but taking it as given that at least some believe it is important to preserve what we can, the EDD+ card is one of the most effective tools presently available for capturing reliable images of protected disks. It's definitely not the case that everything has been cracked or even preserved, generally speaking it was only stuff that was of interest to warez groups that got serious cracking attention, and even then often things were cut out in order to cram things on a disk or get the pirate/group credits embedded. Even very widely distributed things like Sneakers, Apple Panic, Conan had loading screens or title music that almost nobody saw because the pirate groups took them out. Anyway, I digress. There might be demand for the EDD+ card at least until alternatives become available (again).
