Soundcard for A1200

Originally Posted by Daedalus

Connecting a Pi to the clockport is simple - that's not the problem. The real issue is the software - getting the Pi to present itself as a nice, multifunction card that can do audio, USB, ethernet, Wifi etc., and then the counterpart drivers on the Amiga side - USB drivers, AHI drivers SANA drivers... The Amiga community seems to lack the low-level software people these days.

Well that's the main issue: developers have left (or died). A lot of development was done by companies that worked for profit. There is no money left in Amiga.

[Rotzloeffel]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

If it uses AHI drivers, it works with lots of things. If it uses MHI drivers like the Prisma Megamix, it supports music players that use MP3, Ogg Vorbis and the like.

aha..... what do you think about this ?

[trixster]

Omg!

[Rotzloeffel]

[trixster]

They said it couldn’t be done

[Daedalus]

Awesome... Now, where can I buy one?

Originally Posted by Rotzloeffel

aha..... what do you think about this ?

Looks great, but I do not have these options. Where did you get these drivers?

[Rotzloeffel]

Originally Posted by Syntrax

Looks great, but I do not have these options. Where did you get these drivers?

It is done, when it is done it is work in Progress actually... give him some more time for release !

[Rotzloeffel]

Originally Posted by trixster

They said it couldn’t be done

they said a lot

[Samurai_Crow]

Originally Posted by Syntrax

Looks great, but I do not have these options. Where did you get these drivers?

Based on the debugger information in the lower left part of the screen it looks like he's a tester if not the author of the drivers!

[BSzili]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

Awesome... Now, where can I buy one?

That is the 1 million dollar question

[Estrayk]

Originally Posted by Rotzloeffel

aha..... what do you think about this ?

but.. what the hell?!!! how?

[Daedalus]

Originally Posted by Estrayk

but.. what the hell?!!! how?

The chip has a PCM streaming mode which lets you send a plain, stereo audio stream directly to it. It's "only" a matter of configuring the chip, provided it has low enough latency to be useful.

[Samurai_Crow]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

The chip has a PCM streaming mode which lets you send a plain, stereo audio stream directly to it. It's "only" a matter of configuring the chip, provided it has low enough latency to be useful.

If that's the case, it still relies on the CPU on the accelerator card to mix and resample. It will save the Paula DMA for sound effects though.

[kriz]

Very interesting that drivers are being worked on, so indeed let us buy this @Amigakit

[Rotzloeffel]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

Based on the debugger information in the lower left part of the screen it looks like he's a tester if not the author of the drivers!

He is the author of the original mhi diverse

[BSzili]

Originally Posted by Samurai_Crow

If that's the case, it still relies on the CPU on the accelerator card to mix and resample. It will save the Paula DMA for sound effects though.

This is the case for most AHI sound cards, they usually don't have more than one stereo hardware channels.

[E-Penguin]

Originally Posted by BSzili

That is the 1 million dollar question

I've got a bundle of cash ready for them as soon as they're available!

A benefit of lockdown is my Amiga purchases fund is now very healthy

[Rotzloeffel]

Originally Posted by Daedalus

The chip has a PCM streaming mode which lets you send a plain, stereo audio stream directly to it. It's "only" a matter of configuring the chip, provided it has low enough latency to be useful.

The Main Problem aktually is, that there is no hardwareinterrup, telling the driver that the very small Buffer is emty

[BSzili]

Originally Posted by E-Penguin

I've got a bundle of cash ready for them as soon as they're available!

A benefit of lockdown is my Amiga purchases fund is now very healthy

Once there's a working AHI driver I'd probably get one as well, but alas this card has become unobtainium. AFAIK there was no official reason given (hence the speculation), the closest explanation I found was the planned redesign for a new version.