Just thought I must share my uneducated guess on issue reported at https://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=9820 > Please note that running with 1024Mb of memory will make sound stop working > in Mac OS 9.x. So run with less memory. > As will running without virtual memory.
My guess this has something to do with device memory regions, may be because Linux always uses Virtual memory (MMU, address translation), as well as Mac OS X 10.x - this little issue was unnoticed until recently ?