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Unrelated question: what resources did you use to write your CHIP-8 emulator? I've also been wanting to write one in Python for educational purposes, but haven'
by metasaval 7y ago
Unrelated question: what resources did you use to write your CHIP-8 emulator? I've also been wanting to write one in Python for educational purposes, but haven't found any great resources yet in Python. Granted there are a few in C that I could try to translate over, but I'm curious to know what you used.
- Waterluvian 7y agoI looked at the Wikipedia page and a couple PDFs from Google front page. I stole a collection of games from someone else's project to use for testing. My goal was to get in the door so I picked a language I knew well and set some constraints: 1. Doesn't have to be fast. Just has to run. 2. Write opcodes as pure functions, passing in an array of memory and returning a new array of memory. This made it easy to test and debug. But also made it super slow. 3. DO NOT look at someone else's code. This forced me down a way slower path where I learned a whole lot more than I would have if I just reimplemented others' work.