https://aymanbagabas.com/tags/chip8/Recent content in Chip8 on Ayman BagabasHugoen-usMon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://aymanbagabas.com/blog/2018/09/17/chip-8-emulator/Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://aymanbagabas.com/blog/2018/09/17/chip-8-emulator/<p>If you ever played retro games on modern computers, then you probably know what an emulator is. Chip-8 is an interpreted programming language that was created originally by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weisbecker">Joseph Weisbecker</a>{target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&ldquo;noopener&rdquo;}. Chip-8 programs get interpreted by a virtual machine. It offers a very simple monochrome graphics and uses a 4Kb of memory. It has the &ldquo;8&rdquo; part because all the system&rsquo;s components, like CPU registers, have a size of 8 bits or 1 byte.</p>