Dolphin is less dead than we thought:

We've decided to start the ball rolling with a beta release for Dolphin 6.1. Unlike our previous beta programmes this one will be public rather than closed, although you will have to have a valid Dolphin Professional license to take part (i.e. Dolphin Community Edition keys will not yet unlock the installer).

I think (feel free to correct me) that this from their home page explains what's going on:

For several years now, in a climate of free and open source development tools, it has been difficult for us to create and sell our products in a maner which is commercially viable. For this reason we have decided that it would be financially impossible for us to commit to major new developments of Dolphin Smalltalk into the future. What this means is that Dolphin will continue to support Win32 under both XP and Vista but we will not be porting the IDE to .NET or any other platform. We will still offer the Community Edition for free download and the Professional version can be purchased by those who have evaluated that the Win32 product meets their needs.

What died is a major port of Dolphin to .NET. They are still doing incremental work on the existing product (I expect they still use it for their own purposes, for instance). Anyway, this is good news for Smalltalk fans.

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