FPGA Arcade and Minimig overview

[vidarh]

Consider the Minimig pretty much an A500 replacement with a somewhat higher performance (the 68000 on it can be clocked higher, but it's hamstrung by the rest of the system similarly to how a real A500 would be if you) and up to 4MB RAM (shared with the kickstart).

The FPGA Arcade is AGA (plus possibly some extra stuff), has more memory, you will be able to get a daughterboard with a 68060 + ethernet, and the core it comes with (if you don't use the daughterboard 68060) performs like a high end 68030 / low end 68040 at the moment unless they've managed to boost it even more.

I'd wait for the FPGA Arcade at this point for your purposes (with or without the daughterboard). The first run of boards will possibly/likely be available in November (though likely all spoken for). The second run is of ca. 500 boards.

[vidarh]

FPGA Arcade has already hit the market.

For very limited definitions of "hit the market". There's something like 5-6 boards out there now. Last update from Mike was that the rest of the first batch of ca 50 won't be available until mid November. Most or all of those are likely spoken for by those of us that have already e-mailed him, so general availability for people who want to order it is likely still a couple of months away when his next production run is ready.

And I agree on FPGA Arcade being a A1200 replacement. Maybe it can work as a A3000 / A4000 too? (minus expansion ports)

Depends what you're looking for, I suppose. With the 68060+ethernet daughterboard, it'll already be more powerful and flexible than most A3000/A4000 setups unless you're willing to spend a lot of money pushing old unreliable expansion cards into an A3000 or A4000.