Hi Christian, please consider contributing your code to open Smalltalk vm (if you haven’t already).  We can happily add a platforms/openbsd if required.

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> On Dec 4, 2019, at 11:40 PM, Christian Kellermann <ckeen at pestilenz.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Lists!
> 
> I have written a VM SoundPlugin for OpenBSD's native sound system
> sndio. Which means that now I have sound in Squeak on this platform.
> However I am a bit struggling with the sound quality of SampledSound's
> like in the eToys SoundLibrary. Those produce an echo effect when
> played and I have been unable to determine the cause. However the
> Bach fugue Tests sound perfect so I am suspecting some miscalculations
> in sample data somewhere on the way.
> 
> As I have been trying to confirm the 'normal' behaviour on Linux I
> stumbled over issues with the sound plugins on my ArchLinux box:
> None of them work.
> 
> ALSA, OSS or Pulse Audio plugins error out in different stages of
> the drivers.
> 
> Am I the only one? What's the last known good state of those?  What's
> the last known good state of sound output for the SoundLibrary
> SampledSounds?
> 
> I have tried with latest master and trunk of both opensmalltalk-vm
> and Squeak.
> 
> I am grateful for any hints. Once that works I will propose patches
> to the opensmalltalk-vm code base.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
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