audio.device support in OS4?

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Hello all, I have an (emulated) A4000 running OS4.0 for Classic. AHI sound works but not audio.device. Programs seem to be able to open and use audio.device successfully except that it is completely silent.

So it seems OS4 lacks proper support for audio.device, even on a Classic Amiga, or is this user error!? I tried NallePUH and it says my hardware is unsupported, is there another program that will achieve the same result?

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Hmm, must be because I'm running OS4.0 instead of 4.1 then.

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@danbeaver:

That can't be entirely ruled out, but seems unlikely, since AHI is working fine, and audio.device is working fine under OS3.9 with a similar configuration. I'd like to check whether OS4.0 is supposed to be able to do this before filing an emulator bug report. I do find it somewhat hard to believe that OS4.0 was released without any audio.device support.

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@spirantho:

I'm not assuming anything; that's why I asked a question, instead of jumping to a firm conclusion as you have done. But given that WinUAE's Paula emulation has been used/tested by thousands of people for close to two decades, a bug in the emulator is unlikely.

The question was about use of the Paula chip via audio.device. Nothing to do with using a "cheap USB sound device", obviously.

If Hyperion had proper documentation for the OS, I could look up the answer myself...

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>If you have a program (in this case the Paula driver) that runs fine on the real hardware, and with the same software fails under emulation, surely the fault has to be the emulation?

I don't know that it runs fine on the real hardware. It was developed under emulation, and I don't have real hardware to test it on, and I can't find any documentation that says if audio.device is properly supported under OS4.0. (CodeWar & Worm Wars sound effects, quite straightforward use of audio.device to play back sampled sounds.) I can't find any changelog for OS4 to find out if/when support for it was added.

>Is audio.device supported in OS4? Yes, it is.

Is it supported in OS4.0 or only OS4.1?

>Had this been run on a real Amiga the question wouldn't have even come up.

Sorry, I don't have $5000...