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08/01/2026 ~ The Breakthrough

After weeks of chasing phantom bugs, the real breakthrough came from a completely different angle: the CD32 wasn’t failing , it was waiting!

Once I stopped treating the resets as emulator faults and started treating them as forensic signals, everything clicked. The Extended ROM wasn’t “dead” or “incomplete”. The CDUI wasn’t missing. The RomTags weren’t lying. The system was simply expecting hardware responses that no emulator had ever given it. So I rebuilt the environment from the ground up:

• 7 problematic modules bypassed with surgical precision
• Fake ExecBase to stabilize the bootflow
• Stubbed libraries to keep the firmware alive
• Akiko/CD region mapped and neutralized
• Forensic jumps to keep the execution path honest

And then it happened!

The CD32 crossed the point of no return:
Extended ROM execution, AGA writes from E0xxxx, and full video init logic alive and running.
No more resets.
No more dead ends.
Just pure CD32 firmware doing exactly what Commodore intended!

For the first time, Paula32 isn’t “trying” to boot the CD32.
It is booting it!

The next chapter is clear: first visible pixels of the CD32 boot animation.

I said it before, but now I mean it more than ever:
this might really be Paula32’s year.

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