- Added functionality to enable SDL audio streaming in the Emulator class, allowing for improved audio handling.
- Introduced environment variable checks to configure audio streaming on initialization.
- Updated audio backend to support native audio frame queuing and resampling, enhancing audio performance and flexibility.
Benefits:
- Enhances audio playback quality and responsiveness in the emulator.
- Provides users with the option to utilize SDL audio streaming for better audio management.
- Updated audio buffering strategy to ensure smooth playback by always queuing samples and implementing dynamic rate control.
- Introduced Hermite interpolation for audio resampling, providing better quality than linear interpolation.
- Adjusted audio debug logging for improved monitoring of audio states and buffer management.
Benefits:
- Improved audio playback quality and reduced glitches.
- Enhanced clarity in audio debugging and monitoring processes.
- Renamed `turbo_mode()` to `is_turbo_mode()` for clarity in the Emulator class.
- Improved input handling in the Snes class by adding button state management and ensuring proper initialization of input controllers.
- Implemented multiple audio resampling methods (linear, cosine, cubic) in the Dsp class, allowing for enhanced audio quality during playback.
- Updated the user interface to include options for selecting audio interpolation methods and added keyboard shortcuts for emulator controls.
Benefits:
- Improved code readability and maintainability through clearer method naming and structured input management.
- Enhanced audio playback quality with new resampling techniques.
- Streamlined user experience with added UI features for audio settings and keyboard shortcuts.
- Enhanced audio backend initialization by adding comments for clarity and ensuring a moderate buffer size for optimal latency and stability.
- Updated the emulator's run logic to start in a running state by default and refined the auto-pause mechanism to only trigger during window resizing, removing aggressive focus-based pausing.
- Implemented adaptive audio buffering to maintain smooth playback, adjusting the number of queued samples based on current buffer status.
Benefits:
- Improved user experience with more intuitive audio handling and reduced latency.
- Enhanced stability during window operations, preventing crashes on macOS.
- Streamlined audio processing for better performance and responsiveness.
- Updated Emulator::Run method to accept a Rom* parameter, improving flexibility in ROM handling.
- Refactored texture creation and ROM data initialization to utilize the new parameter.
- Enhanced logging in Snes class to provide detailed information during initialization, reset, and frame processing, aiding in debugging and performance monitoring.
- Introduced cycle tracking in Apu and Spc700 classes for accurate synchronization and debugging.
- Added unit tests for APU DSP functionality and IPL ROM handshake to ensure reliability and correctness of audio processing.
