Dip

I’ve always been amazed by emulators. Somehow they always seemed magic. I mean, what’s not cool about being able to run a NES game for example on a Windows 2000 PC?!

So, when the lockdowns took hold and work dried up I decided it was finally time to sit down and write a basic one.

I ended up writing a CHIP8 emulator/virtual machine using a handful of resources. Some of those include:

• https://massung.github.io/CHIP-8/
• https://austinmorlan.com/posts/chip8_emulator/
• http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM - Instruction reference
• https://chip-8.github.io/links/
• https://github.com/mattmikolay/chip-8/wiki/CHIP%E2%80%908-Technical-Reference

Below you can see a copy of the emulator modified slightly to run on an ESP32 microcontroller:

TODO:

• Port this so that it can run in browser using WASM.

See more at https://github.com/jamesduncombe/dip