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Building a CHIP-8 Emulator in Go

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Games Project Software GO WASM CI/CD Emulator Ebiten Computer Architecture Retro Computing
Author
Virgola
AI & Cybersecurity Student @ University of Udine X University of Klagenfurt.
Go enthusiast & CTF player @ Madrhacks
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Overview
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While exploring computer architecture and low-level programming, I decided to build a CHIP-8 emulator from scratch in Go. CHIP-8 is a simple interpreted programming language created in the 1970s. Despite its simplicity, implementing an emulator requires understanding many fundamental concepts behind computers: memory management, instruction decoding, timing, rendering, and input processing. The goal of this project was not only to run old CHIP-8 programs, but to better understand how virtual machines work internally.

Live demo
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You can try the emulator directly in your browser:

Open CHIP-8 Emulator

Technical details
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i will update this with some details

Source
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