The art of CHIP-8
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The art of CHIP-8
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Re: The art of CHIP-8
#2The author runs his own chip8 game jams which is pretty fun. He also runs his own webcomic: https://beyondloom.com/comic/index.html
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#3If you want a "brief" history tour of the COSMAC Hardware under Chip-8 (From the ELF to the VIP) and the man behind it all (Joseph Weisbecker) then you're in luck because @TechTimeTraveller has just dropped a video on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Pdf8iRw5E (the history part ends around the 17min mark).
Re: The art of CHIP-8
#4The author runs his own chip8 game jams which is pretty fun. He also runs his own webcomic: https://beyondloom.com/comic/index.html
https://beyondloom.com/blog/octojam.html looks like the game jams are no longer happening. Quite a sad post to read
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#5Hah, I wrote an interpreter for this in C years back after hearing that it was a good first project for people who have an interest in virtual machines and emulation.
I think I actually used some of the diagnosis/test suite ROMs that the author linked to smooth out the last few issues my implementation had.
I also implemented the quirk flags and made them GUI-toggleable.
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#6Brings back memories of writing a Chip-8 emulator when bored out of my mind in an introductory programming class in undergrad. It's such an underrated project.
Producing something that can actually run some full games in a first/second year undergrad class would do so much for how seriously students might take the CS/CE curriculum.
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#8The author runs his own chip8 game jams which is pretty fun. He also runs his own webcomic: https://beyondloom.com/comic/index.html
Funny, I just learned of this website from elsewhere, and I bookmarked this arguably much more interesting project: https://beyondloom.com/decker/index.html
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#9I wrote an interpreter in Zig not too long ago. I’d definitely recommend more folks try it out. It’s a straight-forward enough project to dip your toes in emulation and see if it’s your jam. And it’s not a big enough project that you’ll get overwhelmed before you finish.
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#10Ah, detached "while" as a replacement for if-guarded "break". A concept that, syntactically, can very easily be fitted onto ALGOL/Pascal-like languages but not onto the C-likes:
loop stmt1; while condA; stmt2; while condB; stmt again
loop while condA; stmt again
loop stmt; while condA again
More on the topic of the article itself, don't you just love quirks of the older emulators that you, as an emulator writer, now have to support because everybody else expects them? What about the quirks that half of those "everybody" expect to exist, while the other half expects the opposite behaviour? And of course, as the application writer, you know have to know about and stay away from those quirks. Arcane trivia FTW!