Scanning the original chips

[ferrellsl]

What I meant was how much a single A600 (or A1200) compatible drop-in compatible motherboard with Agnus/Denise/Paula would each cost to manufacture today from scratch inc tooling up for mass production and all R&D. Assume you commit to producing one million units and exclude CPU costs. Go to China, give them the specs for everything and add R&D cost to invoice they charge for producing a million units. £100? £200? less?

It's far from easy to do, the first Amiga Technologies A1200 motherboard that rolled off the production line run at the factory in France was defective in the mid 90s!

You're making too many assumptions to come up with a per unit cost of a re-production.  Do you really expect someone on this forum to research all the variables and give you a discrete price for a product that has no demand in the real world?  Or are you just asking a hypothetical question?

[ferrellsl]

In the real world, a million units is way larger than the actual market size, and ten thousand is more realistic (maybe still too large). Seeing how producing a relatively large quantity of units is not an option, those machines are going to turn out to be pretty expensive Makes you wish you were stinkin' rich
It should be possible to come up with a reasonable estimate

Then by all means, be my guest.  Start your research and give all of us a reasonable estimate.   But I think the term "reasonable" is too subjective and any estimate will be just a ridiculous figure that won't be anywhere close to reality.

Your wealth would be better served by investing in a Replay board or a Minimig......or better yet, if you're so enamored with classic Amigas, just go out and buy some.  They're still pretty cheap on eBay and other places.