Is emulation based x86 machines in Amiga cases really a no no? or......

[psxphill]

@TheDaddy

To me the only real Amiga is my Amiga 500. It has the original chip set and original code in, done by original Amiga engineers.

 
That would be the Amiga 1000 (or just "Amiga" as the first were called), the A500 was a cost reduced version by commodore.
 

What if Paula had been upgraded for AGA?

It wouldn't matter. Whatever commodore designed for AGA would have become an AGA Amiga. AAA was also an Amiga, albeit unfinished.
 
The Amiga Technlogies machines were also Amiga's, they were basically the same as the commodore machines.
 
There are no Amiga's produced since then.
 
You can't make an Amiga, in the same way you can't make a Ford Fusion.

[psxphill]

What would have been Amiga in 2012 if Commodore hadn't gone out of business?

It's likely that commodore would have come up with a new name by now.
 
If hombre had launched then it would not have been sold as an amiga, it wasn't considered one at all.
 
Windows NT would probably have powered their desktop machines, although they wouldn't have been x86 based as Microsoft were very interested in supporting other cpu's at the time.

[psxphill]

The last Amigas were made by Escom, and apparently there are people who can't accept this, which is not relevant of course. They can believe what ever they want to believe, but it doesn't change what Amigas are.

They were "made" by Amiga Technologies and sold by Escom. All they did though was manufacture the final commodore designs. The only difference between an Amiga technologies A1200 and a commodore A1200 is they added some jumper wires to allow the PC high density floppy drive to work at all (it's better to undo that and modify the drive as then you can get RDY to work as well).
 
If you buy the pcb design & case molds and get someone to manufacture them then you can call that an Amiga too. Although you'll need the custom chips, I suspect that Amiga Technologies never had any of these made though and they just were NOS chips from commodore.

[psxphill]

IMHO the only reason Apple (and Commodore third party) went with PowerPC was because it was a natural replacement for the 68000 series.

It wasn't that natural, Phase5 only did it because of Apple.
 
PPC wasn't the only processor choice for Apple, but IBM/Motorola looked like they had a decent roadmap.