I no longer have any PC with an optical drive. Can I copy the Live CD files to a USB Flash Drive and boot from it?
Is there any reason not to run AROS in a Virtual Machine? Virtual Box is free and I've played with Icaros Desktop VE before and it ran really well. I was using VMWare workstation but it's the same idea. Then you don't have to really worry about hardware compatibility either.
As long as you have enough RAM and processor it seems like a great way to run it.
-Nyle