Directly writing data to a texture isn’t trivial, but it makes for interesting pictures when you get it wrong. Want to see a bunch of buggy screenshots?
I was tired of spending more time fighting WordPress than actually writing, so I got rid of it. Now, I no longer have any excuses for not writing more.
Wow. Has it been two years already? Oh well… Anyway!
So hey, you remember how the Nintendo logo would scroll down when you turned on a Game Boy — and how writing enough of an emulator to see it was kind of the point of most of this blog?
A quick article describing a funny bug, and a nerdy warning against premature optimization.
We are so close! We now have scrolling pixels and sound. The pixels are scrolling a bit too fast and the sound is still kind of subpar. I won’t be trying to improve sound, but there should be something we can do about that speed issue.
All right, it took a few extra months, but we’re finally getting somewhere. This article is hopefully the last one about sound. The result isn’t fantastic, but it works. And for the time being, that will do!
After a long hiatus, I went from outputting crappy sound to outputting crappy sound in stereo. Would you like to know more?
The actual emulator I wrote and which prompted that series of articles on this very blog is finally functional enough that I decided to publish it on GitHub.
Do you know how sound works? Well, me neither, but I hope we can figure it out together!
A quick wrap-up of the last article, with bonus GIFs of the final result.
