another quick #Emu #SMDI update, but this time from the Apple Silicon world: bunch of tweaking shows a 10-core M1 MBP is more than capable of emulating an x86 under #qemu (inside https://mac.getutm.app) fast & well enough to communicate bi-directionally with the sampler on WinXP, as well as chopping the audio - although latency is ~500ms 🐶 and passing through a class-compliant audio device seems to turn the VM into a 🐢 but still, this is quite game-changing: ARM upgrade path! 🖥️

ok, update on using the #Ratoc to talk #SMDI to the #sampler in a #VM. when i said "doesn't work", i should've said DOES WORK 🤩

naturally i spent several hours trying to get XP running natively on an old MacBook Air. # BootCamp’s not an option not only because the only version of macOS in which it supports XP (for U2SCX driver) is Leopard, and I doubt v much that’ll run on a 2012 MBA, but also ‘cos (TIL 😩) XP/installer just won’t boot from UEFI. sigh. sooooo… only certain way to get #SMDI working with the #E4XT is old PC hardware with native XP. needs to be small and unobtrusive. let’s check the ‘Bay? result: oooh!