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Emulating the Chip8 system.

What you need to know:

So you've taken my advice and read the emulation guide that explains the emulation basics? If so then emulating this system will be very easy. You need to know:

Resources:

The resources I used to emulate this system are:

  1. The emulation guide I keep referring to
  2. Wikipedias documentation of the system
  3. The chip8 Instruction Set
  4. David Winters documentation
The wikipedia documentation I found to be more accurate than the Chip8 Documentation, so you can really emulate this system with just that. However it's always good to have more than one resource to compare and contrast. David Winters documentation is great for the keyboard mappings and explanation about how the graphics work. When you're ready to start emulating use the navigation bar to the right to begin.