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Creating A Chip-8 Emulator In C

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Overview

Learn to create an emulator for a 1970s machine!

What you'll learn:
  • How to create an emulator for the Chip-8 machine
  • Knowledge of how instruction sets work
  • Understanding of how machines work

In this fantastic course you will learn how to create your very own emulator for the Chip-8 in the C programming language. The Chip-8 is a virtual machine from the mid 1970s designed to make game development easier.

This course is great for anyone who has programming experience and would love to create an emulator but just does not know where to start or has attempted to do it but ran into problems

You are taken through every step of emulator creation, throughout this course we start by setting up our project, then we start writing code to emulate the display and keyboard from the era. We soon move to simulating the entire Chip-8 instruction set.

After you complete this course you will have a fully functioning Chip-8 emulator that can run space invaders, pong and many other classic games.

Taught by

Daniel McCarthy

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