Cloanto 3.x rom Amiga 500

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Every thread I've seen mentioning that "3.x" ROM has been nothing but problems. Almost makes me wonder if anyone has had it "just work", lol.

IMHO I'd send it back and get a straight 3.1 ROM, also. Or burn your own.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

It says the workbench.library was removed to save space. OS 3.5 and 3.9 don't need it to load.

And if I remove my belt it will save space in my luggage, but that doesn't mean my pants won't fall down, or that my wardrobe will be more functional.  

j/k, I've been loading workbench.library off disk for years.  Works fine.  Off-hand I think the latest version is 45.134.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

So the CD32, 1200, 3000 and 4000 ought to be able to handle a 1 meg rom.

CD32 had some whackadoodle design to use up to 2x 16-bit 1MB ROM's (total of 2MB), rather than the 32-bit ROM's like the A1200/4000.  By default it had only a single 1MB ROM chip that had both 3.1 & the custom CD32 stuff in it.   I seem to recall someone here a while back hacked their system to support both ROM sockets (and burned custom ROM's for it), but had some issues with memory addressing overlap.  Don't have time to look up the thread now, but maybe it was Cosmos?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Also, CDTV could come with a 512kB 1.3 kickstart plus 256kB extended ROM.

AFAIK 1.3 was only 256K.  Didn't go up to 512K till 2.0.  Didn't the CDTV use the same ROM's as A500 + the additional chips for it's special functions?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I'd love to find out more about that.

There was a thread on here about it a few months ago.  I was just paraphrasing from memory.  If you look at the motherboard of a CD32 you can see where the extra ROM socket would go:

(U6B, under the sticker)