What would be your move now that you know the price of the X1000?

[Vanilla]

Sorry, I meant PCI-e *slot*, aka Xorro. You can't put a real PCI-e card into it and have it work.

You couldn't plug an ISA card into a Zorro slot on a real Amiga and expect it to work either so what's your point? ;-)

The only borked thing I see is that there is only one of them. There should be four. :-)

[Vanilla]

There are PowerPC emulators out there. I believe QEMU emulates the full G4 instruction set (can't recall if it supports G5 or not,) but it doesn't emulate any OS4 custom hardware

What OS4 custom hardware? Taking my A1 as an example, apart from the CPU, nothing much else I can see is custom. It's all made out of standard PC parts! I don't see the problem here. UBoot is downloadable and ACiube even offer the source on their server!

I'm surprised no one has made an A1 emulator yet. Compared to the complex original Amiga, which has been emulated for years, an A1 is easy! You got no custom chips to think about. Either those coders are lazy, or they think it's too hard and don't bother. Hey, my A1 can emulate a Mac in Linux, so there's no reason why a PC couldn't emulate an A1.