@J-Golden
There are some FPGA-based Amiga cores and systems being designed. The Natami is my favorite. It may cost something similar to the A4000 new but it will be a PCI card-slot box with a Super-AGA set of cores in its 2 FPGAs. To get the details and even participate in the design, see
http://www.natami.net/ . Another one is the MiniMig but it's not AGA compatible yet and it costs something too.
As for the next-generation systems it will be a little while yet before they get sufficient fragment shader capabilities in their graphics infrastructure to emulate the Copper coprocessor in a timely fashion without loading down the main processor.
I hope this gives you something to look forward to. Feel free to post more on this thread if you want more information and sympathy. FWIW, I've still got my A1200 from 1993 but I seldom use it. I'm still single and unemployed though so I may be able to use it again someday.
