I just wanted to say that I managed to download, burn and run the live version natively. It is the fist time in almost 3 years I manage to run AROS natively on any of the PCs I own (it used to work on some but something broke along the way). Bottom line: Whatever Neil did to ATA.device, it worked!
All I can say is wow. Thank you very much guys, you brought a smile to my face.