Well spent another couple hours running experiments in MACH4 with the POKEYS latest plugin, to no avail. Clearly there are more issues with MACH4.
1) Even when I try this on my desktop computer with an Intel i7, 12G of ram, super fast video card, where the plugin loads there are issues. The first issue is if you tell MACH4 to add a plugin and navigate to a directory with the plugin it says nothing matches your search. Keep in mind this is with the same plugin that loads on my desktop when it is placed in the plugin directory. That is clearly a MACH4 bug, navigate to file does not work.
2) On the 2.4GHz Dual Core, with 4G of ram, super fast video card, and Windows7 Pro 64-bit, no matter what I have tried I get the error loading plugin with the ERROR code 0, completed successfully.
3) removing all motion plugins from MACH4 and only having it in simulation mode which was my latest experiment made no difference. The theory was MACH4 did not like seeing a plugin with another motion driver, like the POKEY. I have updated the POKEY to the latest firmware and using the latest plugin make no difference. In fact you don't even need a pokey device to add the pokey plugin on my desktop it finds it and adds it to the list. When I plugin the pokey device USB or Ethernet on my desktop MACH4 allows me to configure the device, so clearly something strange, since both systems are running the exact same version of Window7 and same version of MACH4, the latest, and the latest Pokeys plugin.
The pokeys device is very popular and one of the first several companies to have provided plugins for MACH4. At this point I have no clue if this is a plugin issue or a MACH4 issue. Love to see other users post so the developers would figure out what is wrong.
Russ