Not necessarily, FPGA cores are not faithful reproductions of the Amiga custom chips. I think the main premise here is that the Amiga custom chips can, with pr

Not necessarily, FPGA cores are not faithful reproductions of the Amiga custom chips. I think the main premise here is that the Amiga custom chips can, with proper care, last for a lifetime or more, but the Amiga PCBs (some of which are 30+ years old now) only get brittle with time. Capacitors leak, traces are damaged/corroded, pins on headers break etc. People attempting repairs with substandard equipment/training also exasperate this issue by damaging the (limited) supply of original PCBs even more. A new PCB solves this issue and also provides modularity for future extensions. At the end, it’s still an Amiga, behaving exactly like an original Amiga would.