[mrweasel]

For people interested in building/fixing computers these old systems are wonderful. Even without training you can teach youself enough about electronics to reason about how they work, well enough to fix them.

Sure much of it is nostalgia and those who owned Amigas in the 80’ and 90’ now have the time and funds to tinker.

I still wonder about the custom chip. Could you just send a handfuld to China and have them reversed engineer? Sure an FPGA is easier and cheaper, but many want real hardware. The custom chips are almost the only thing you can’t get as a new part.