Thanks, I want an updated amiga and I don't know much about the FPGA boards but I was under the impression they were "programmed" to behave like other hardware. That's why I thought it was basically emulation, which made me think I might be better saving some money and getting an Imica from Clusteruk. Many have said this is where the future of the Amiga lies.
It is a bit harsh for people to shoot you down about this! An FPGA Amiga is still an emulation of the original hardware, even though it is not the step by step processor based emulation of something like UAE.
The FPGA I programmed using a language not unlike a normal computer pogramming language, the real difference is that the language is used by the FPGA software to build a logic map of the operation which is then "executed" by small programmable units in the hardware (often little more than logic units, but can have advanced features like adders and memory). The FPGA must be programmed every power on.
I wouldn't mind playing with an FPGA board (like mikej's Replay) to build my own CPU...
