chip8 emulator
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i am making a chip8 emulator the hello world of emulation!!! i am following https://omokute.blogspot.com/2012/06/emulation-basics-write-your-own-chip-8.html blog
i am making a chip8 emulator the hello world of emulation!!! i am following https://omokute.blogspot.com/2012/06/emulation-basics-write-your-own-chip-8.html blog
i am starting to understand the flow of the rpogram after creating the first 4 instructions:
I first started researching on emulation itself as a topic then went onto discover the chip8 as the first starting point. i then read the chip8 documentation and was fascinated by it. this somehow seemed like i could really understand how computers work with this even if it was like computers of the 1970s
i also got to see old python usage:
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def load_rom(self, rom_path):
log(“Loading %s…” % rom_path)
binary = open(rom_path, “rb”).read()
i = 0
while i < len(binary):
self.memory[i+0x200] = ord(binary[i])
i += 1
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