>     Working on a VHDL synthesizable model for the PIC (haven't pinned down
>     any particular one yet..), partly for fun, perhaps for a future FPGA..
>     (BTW, is there demand for such a beast?  Let me know!).

I havn't worked with FPGA enough to know, so maybe you could tell me how
much would it cost for a chip that could synthesize a 16CXX for ICE? I think
many of us would be interested. I am afraid that it would end up costing as
much as a commercial emulator, (small quantities), after spending months
designing & debugging.