Creating A Chip-8 Emulator In C
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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.
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Implementing The MemoryIn this lecture we implement the memory or RAM of the Chip-8
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Creating The Registers
In this lecture we cover the creation of registers in the Chip-8. Registers allow Chip-8 programs to store temporary information
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Creating The Stack
The Chip-8 Stack allows Chip-8 programs to store addresses from subroutine calls, this allows Chip-8 programs to call subroutines and return later on
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Creating The Keyboard
In this lecture we implement the Chip-8 keyboard so that users using our emulator will be able to play the Chip-8 games we are emulating
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Initializing The Chip-8
This lecture covers us initializing the Chip-8 to ensure that their is nothing uninitialized when we emulate
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Creating The Default Character Set
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Creating The Display
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Drawing Sprites To The Screen
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Implementing The Delay Timer
Chip-8 has a delay timer used by the Chip-8 programs to delay the interpreter
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Implementing The Sound Timer
Chip-8 has a sound timer that is used by the Chip-8 programs to sound a tone for a certain interval
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Starting The Creation Of The Instruction Set Simulator
In this lecture we start preparing for the implementation of the Chip-8 instruction set
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Implementing The Chip-8 Instruction Set
This lecture we implement the entire Chip-8 instruction set and have a working emulator that's capable of playing space invaders, pong and more!
