Short: Chip 8 v0.1 Emulator by Balrog Soft Author: balrog@teleline.es Uploader: balrog@teleline.es Type: misc/emu Chip 8 Emulator v0.1ß by Pedro Gil (Balrog Soft). First release 1 What is Chip 8? Chip 8 was an old console with a simple graphics (like Atari 2600) with only two colors, and one beep of sound. With this program you will would run old games. The oldest game Pong dont work by now in my emulator, but others work fine. 2 How work Chip 8 Emulator? The keyboard of original In the emulator the keys are: Chip 8 machines was: ( Numeric keys in Amiga ) 1 2 3 C [ ] / * 4 5 6 D 7 8 9 - 7 8 9 E 4 5 6 + A 0 B F 1 2 3 Enter Click on the emulator and you would seen a listview (not work now) a text ("No game..."), buttons "INS", "Start", "Quit" and a cycle called Display with "Window" and "Screen". How to run a game Click on Ins to load a game (maze for example) set display in Window on amiga window, or screen (more faster) And click Start In screen display you can exit with F10 About "Run" gadget is to emulate the Chip 8, or emulate and monitoring the game. In monitor mode you would seen at the end of the screen the internal registers of Chip 8. In the top you would seen the emulate chip 8 and the disassembler. Pressing a key the instructions are executed. With speed, you can control the speed of emulation, 100% is the fastest emulation. 3. Bugs and other things This is my first emulator that I do, please send me emails, with bugs ideas, information of Chip 8, all!!! Write to me : balrog@teleline.es and visit my web: http://members.tripod.com/~balrogsoft 4. History Version 0.1ß - Fixed the xor drawing mode original of Chip 8, graphics are good - Duplicated the window size - Add new opcode key VR Version 0.001ß - First version released - Emulated 31 opcodes of 41 - Emulated sound - Emulated very bad graphics - Emulated Input hexadecimal keyboard ç 5. List of things to do - Emulate the 9 opcodes ( bits operation, and fonts) - Emulate the opcodes of Super Chip 8 (with better graphics) - A better time register emulation - ???? ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 67072 67072 0.0% 16-Feb-80 02:14:50 ChipEm 549 309 43.7% 15-Feb-80 11:25:10 ChipEm.info 2441 1130 53.7% 16-Feb-80 01:08:08 Chipem.readme 465 244 47.5% 15-Feb-80 11:25:10 ChipEm.readme.info 391 371 5.1% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +BLITZ 280 268 4.2% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +BREAKOUT 280 268 4.2% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +BRIX 194 186 4.1% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +CONNECT4 38 38 0.0% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +MAZE 180 180 0.0% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +MISSILE 294 279 5.1% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +PONG2 184 184 0.0% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +PUZZLE 211 211 0.0% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +SQUASH 224 224 0.0% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +UFO 230 213 7.3% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +VERS 229 229 0.0% 15-Feb-80 11:23:44 +WALL -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 73262 71406 2.5% 19-Jun-100 20:18:58 16 files