ECS, AGA, Workbench? No I don't hate them.

[qwerty40001]

But if I make an Altera Hardcopy version of the design it magically tranform into  'real' hardware  

Yes, If You make hardcopy of your FPGA program, then you will get the real thing, not a emulator.

For now, Natami/Minimig are emulators.  

just because it does not need a Flash to get started ?  And the same if I would use some of the Flash based FPGAs or a one time programmable FPGA ?

What a moron.

[qwerty40001]

Sorry I was agitated and I put my questions in an offensive way; my apologies.
But for me it is very hard to understand the fundamental difference between a SRAM based FPGA and a Flash or anti-fuse based FPGA.  

The difference is that the FPGA performs a program  in LUT, and Hardcopy has direct wire connection.

FPGA is commodity hardware.

And the same chip today may be the Amiga, c64 tomorrow and the day after the dishwasher controller.

Depending on what software it is loaded into it.

This is the same situation as with an ordinary PC running an emulator.