CD32 Question

[jeffimix]

The following thought popped into my head as I sat in the shower:

The Amiga OSes 3.5 and 3.9 (BB0/BB1/BB2) all come on CD.
They all require Kickstart 3.1 and an Amiga.
The CD32 has both of these and (presumably) boots off of CD.
Is it possible to use those OSes much in the same manner you use WB 3.1 or less in a harddisk-less scenario?

[Lo]

The following thought popped into my head as I sat in the shower:

1.  I dunno, you sit in your shower?  I can only stand in mine..must be cool.

2. I believe the CD32 has only 2 meg chip ram, where would install the OS to without a disk?  You may be able to load up a minimal ramdisk? Give it a shot, thats what makes AmigaOS fun.

3. If you have a CD32, yopu could obtain a SX32Pro or a SX-1 even for more memory.

4. Actually, I have no idea. :-D

[Matt_H]

To the best of my knowledge, this doesn't work. :-(

A) OS3.5/3.9 are not bootable direct from CD (the Emergency Disk is needed to kick in the system).
B) 6Mb FAST is required.

Even with an SX-1 I couldn't get anything beyond 3.1 going. An SX-32, on the other hand, would make a nice luggable machine for old and semi-modern stuff.

[smerf]

Hi,

I own a CD-32 and the answer is no, unless you have a SX-1 or SX-32.  These CD's will not boot on the CD-32, can't remember why, it's been a year since I had the old cd-32 out. I shut it down after loading in OS 3.9 but I had the SX-1 installed, but I do believe it had something to do about righting another boot code onto the hard drive for booting the new codes for 3.5 and 3.9.

Now for the strange part, do shower floors get cold while you are sitting on them, I don't know the answer to that because I never sat in the shower.

Have fun compootin,

smerf

[jeffimix]

@All lol ok, I see the CD32 doesn't CD boot.

I think if I buy another system the next one would be a CD32, preferably w/ SX32 or some such similiar--- I have a couple hundred dollars left in my fun fund, and I'm expecting the next piece(proper monitor) for my Amiga 2000 to arrive this side of apocalypse, so I'm looking at old console systems I never owned.

Also, my shower is pretty large, you could probably fit a smaller size of tub in  the space it takes up, but it's onyl a shower. The shower floor + wall (leaning against) is usually pretty cold unless either A) You run hot water agianst it. or B) you sit against for a couple minutes.

I enjoy sitting in the shower, it's very relaxing, like soaking in a bath tub. It let's you sit and think, which I often do.

[jaokim]

Well, ahum.
I have actually managed to boot os3.5 on the cd32, although not from the original CD. I made my own bootable cd with os3.5-files.
I assume it would also be possible with os3.9, although the dock and other utils might need more memory, but os3.5 is very much possible.
OS3.5 also has the extended wb-functions which could be fun to play with.

What to remeber when doing these cd's is to include and start the Noreset an Joymouse progs. Also, something to emulate a keyboard with joypad would be great. Began on such a project, but it never got completed.

[lempkee]

grab the cd32 developerkit ad u can make a bootable cd easy... , os3.9 boots of cd here on my cd32...

but there was 1 prog on cd32...when u loaded up
this cd...u could remove cd without rebooting automatically, anyone remeber this? was it communicator?

(cd tray up , machine reboots)