Thursday, February 14, 2013

CHIP-8 Emulator


Chip 8 is an interpreted programming language created to program games in computers in mid 1970s. Since the language just has 36 instructions, this is probably a good place to start if you want to get into emulator programming.

The following resources proved very helpful while i was coding the interpreter.

Chip 8 Technical Specifications

Active Chip 8 forum

My interpreter is done in JAVA and can be accessed here. The repository also has sample ROMS and also executable file.

CHIP 8 code 





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