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2024

Jul 25

How to: Write a Basic CHIP-8 Emulator

NOTE: Unfinished Introduction To condense the plan into one sentence, our goal is to emulate the functionality of a game system programmatically by having an endless loop where we fetch low level instructions from ROMs (i.e. game cartridge binary dumps), execute those instructions, and repeat, updating the screen graphics as necessary. This is exactly what the real consoles due at the hardware …

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