[docs] Can wiki/GUI:-IOPorts be updated please?

[giantclambake]

[docs] Can wiki/GUI:-IOPorts be updated please?

[midwan]

@giantclambake
The list there will be populated by whatever recording devices SDL2 detects. Those can be microphones, Line-In devices or anything else that presets itself to the system as such.

[giantclambake]

...doh! ... copy that ....hitting the TO/GA button ....

[giantclambake]

...m'kay, this is somewhat of a mire ... but on the go around, I got a better sight of the runway...

...on the rpi4, you don't have any audio capture device period, so in this context, 'recording device' is IRL the (probably USB but could also be a HAT) the actual device, you plug into the rpi4...that enables audio capture... and for example, a USB headset (with mic) presents itself like this;

...on your typical x86-64 desktop machine, by default you will have audio capture devices ...on this box, I have front/rear mic, line in, plus the mix monitor capture. Of course, Amiberry doesn't allow for me to select the required input source (aka. recording device)...which could be a mic, some external device connected via line in ...or the 'virtual' device of the mix monitor capture ..ie; no physical 'recording device' required ;)

...same device is presented in both Sound & IO Ports panels.

What should ideally happen here wrt x86-64 machines like this, is that the default device is selected in GUI ->Sound, and in the dropdown list for GUI -> IO Ports -> Sampler, would be the entries default: Front Mic: 0, default: Rear Mic: 0, default: Line: 0 ...etc. In audacity for instance, it is these entries that are called 'Recording: Devices' .... =) However, I don't see that sdl2 can provide this? (probably comes from libasound2)

In any event, wiki/GUI:-IOPorts -> Sampler: doesn't really spell this out ....I mean, sure, it's likely to be one of the most unused functions? I have to wonder....(if it were that, and nobody would miss it, stick 'protection dongle' in ROM, serial port in expansions, delete IO Ports altogether, which allows Virtual Keyboard to fit side-panel)...(yes, it still bugs me the side panel menu is obscured at the bottom.. lol.. =)....but clearly, there's disparity between ARM & x86-64 here.

Obviously I've been looking at improving GUI->IO Ports->helptext and here, stumbled into confusion. I actually wonder if anyone uses the serial port either, honestly I do. I think of it as an 'expansion' anyway, if only because all the other Amiga I/O is being emulated ; having to use a hardware uart in that case would be an expansion... anyhoo....

...I'll give it some more thought...

[midwan]

The sampler isn't really used from what I know (and probably has bugs that haven't been discovered yet).
Serial ports could be useful if you want to hook up 2 instances of Amiberry with a null-mocem cable, and play games that supported that feature.
Protection dongles are only useful if you want to run the original copy of that software, which will require it.

[giantclambake]

Ok.... lets see if we can collate some data -- https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=116370

[midwan]

Closing this as it doesn't need to be an issue. We can have a discussion about it, and if something comes out from there, we'll create an issue for that.

[giantclambake]

Read my mind ;)