Devlog 5: Making it Beep

Last time, I talked about how Continuous Integration was eating my time, Windows was demanding my soul with missing DLLs, and Apple Gatekeeper was holding my app hostage for $99.
This time, I fought back. The emulator is now completely polished, actually sounds like a retro console, and distributes like a real, professional application.

Here is what went down.

It Beeps now

The CHIP-8 doesn’t have a sound card. It basically has a timer attached to a buzzer. If the soundTimer register is greater than 0, it beeps. It ticks down at exactly 60Hz.

I basically wrote some code in c++ to generate a square wave, and used raylib’s audioPlayer to support classic beep sound of chip 8.

Production (The Illusion of Polish)

Originally, I hated that a black developer console popped up behind the Emulator. It screamed unfinished project.
So, I spent hours engineering it out. On Windows, I added the -mwindows flag to the compiler to change it from a Console App to a pure GUI App. On Mac, I completely rewrote my CI pipeline to generate a standard Apple .app folder structure so it would look like a commercial application.

the result? Total disaster. Because my newly polished Windows .exe was a standalone GUI application without a digital signature, Windows Defender immediately flagged it as a virus. Meanwhile, Apple’s Gatekeeper still blocked the .app bundle because I refuse to pay Tim Cook $99 a year.

The Real Solution: I reverted it all. I am keeping the console.

Git always has one more feature (Isn’t god’s another name linus?)

This was my first time actually using the tag feature of git in practical life, i after git push v1.1.0 i was wondering the new releases are created, code editor says everything is uptpdate with remote, but why the hell my gihub does not shows new code, and guess waht branch and tags need to be updated seperately.

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