I've been trying to get myself set up to be able to do some coding for the FV-1 using SpinASM. This involves getting Windows installed on some machine around here. So I check to see which versions are supported, and I see "NEW!! Windows 7 64-bit support!". And this on a website whose copyright notice reads "(c)2007 Spin Semiconductor". Not massively encouraging...
Given there's only one product, the designer of that product is now dead, and the website and assembler hasn't been updated in years, how much longer can we expect the FV-1 to be useable? Sooner or later, Microsoft will drop support for the "latest" version of windows that runs it and the wheels will start to come off, if they're not already doing it.
It's a real shame since I think it looks like a great chip and Keith Barr had some very interesting ideas and a clever way of doing more with less, but unless they show some activity soon, they'll be some kind of SpinZombie Corp.