http://www.virgola.dev/tags/emulator/Recent content in Emulator on HomeHugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2026 VirgolaThu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://www.virgola.dev/labs/chip-8-emulator/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://www.virgola.dev/labs/chip-8-emulator/<h2 class="relative group">Overview <div id="overview" class="anchor"></div> <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100 select-none"> <a class="text-primary-300 dark:text-neutral-700 !no-underline" href="#overview" aria-label="Anchor">#</a> </span> </h2> <p>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.</p>