I ordered an Efika board just for the sole purpose of testing Odamex in order to see how low end a machine it could run on.

Considering that I can run it, as well as my AB3D project on the classic XBOX, I figured the Efika would have no problems.

Well when I load it my RAM goes up to 99.9% usage. My CPU slows down hard core for a few seconds, and I get the error:

SDL_getError = Couldn't create audio thread.

Mind you, I just installed MorphOS and installed the latest release of PowerSDL from Aminet.

This should in theory run just fine on this hardware. Is anyone else, especially Efika users having this problem?

Just in case anyone else had this problem: it was caused by Odamex allocating 128 MB heap at startup. This is obviously not a very good idea on the Efika, which has only 128 MB RAM. I replaced the Zone memory allocator with a different one from Chocolate Doom, which allocates memory dynamically. I updated the archive on my site.

I took a moment to test this and it loaded. I've not tested my project against it, and didn't have speakers hooked up. Will have more time to explore more in depth tomorrow. Thanks for having a look at this!

Sound should work, since it was unrelated to the problem. It was only a side effect that SDL couldn't fire up the audio thread due the lack of free memory.