CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine. It was made to allow video games to be more easily programmed for these computers. (source Wikipedia)
I recently got interested in emulation programming as I was always fascniated with the inner workings of a computer. The CHIP8 "emulator" is like the Hello World! program in writing emulators. I put double quotes around the word "emulator" because CHIP8 is an interpreted language but not actually a hardware by itself. Still, it is a worthwhile pursuit due to the similarities between the CHIP8 language and a system emulator. If you see the language, you can notice it resembles a lot like a assembly language.
As a first step, I tested my implementation of OPCODES with the test ROM from here. The results are shown below:
Emulator running PONG game with the debugger running on the side:
