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Creating A Chip-8 Emulator In C

Daniel McCarthy

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Daniel McCarthy

4.50 Star (4)

4 Hours

17 Lesson

$26.95

$76.99

Description

In this fantastic course you will learn how to create your very own emulator for the Chip-8 in the C programming language. The Chip-8 is a virtual machine from the mid 1970s designed to make game development easier.

This course is great for anyone who has programming experience and would love to create an emulator but just does not know where to start or has attempted to do it but ran into problems

You are taken through every step of emulator creation, throughout this course we start by setting up our project, then we start writing code to emulate the display and keyboard from the era. We soon move to simulating the entire Chip-8 instruction set.

After you complete this course you will have a fully functioning Chip-8 emulator that can run space invaders, pong and many other classic games.

Requirements

You must be confident in the C programming language

You must understand hexadecimal

You must understand bitwise operators and bit shifting

Who This Course is For

People interested in how to create an emulator

What You Will be Learn

How to create an emulator for the Chip-8 machine

Knowledge of how instruction sets work

Understanding of how machines work

Instructor
Daniel McCarthy

Dragon Zap Instructor

4.91 Star Rating

14 Courses

Dragon Zap Instructor

Daniel McCarthy is a seasoned software engineer, boasting an impressive career spanning over 14 years in the industry. Holding a Master's Degree in Advanced Computer Science from Cardiff Metropolitan University, his broad spectrum of experience encompasses everything from web development to complex compiler and interpreter development. Daniel has honed his skills in bootloader and kernel development. In testament to his proficiency in the field, he has designed two proprietary programming languages: Craft, a general-purpose language, and Marble, a web-focused language akin to PHP. Moreover, he has successfully developed compilers for the C programming language. A testament to his versatility, Daniel demonstrates proficiency in an extensive list of programming languages that includes C, C++, Java, x86 Assembly language, PIC assembly, SQL, PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, and of course, his own creations, Craft and Marble. His professional portfolio also includes the development of Linux kernel modules, a task he has executed with proficiency in a professional context. Currently, Daniel is channeling his wealth of experience and expertise into the education sector, with the aim of nurturing the next generation of professional software engineers.

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Students Feedback (4)
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The course does a good job of walking you through technical documentation and helping you understand what you’re reading. The actual coding and learning process isn’t great though. Purely following along by video doesn’t do much for retention. Videos are nice for explanation of things like technical documentation, but there needs to be an actual course structure in place

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No nonsense to the point development, exactly what it says on the tin. I thoroughly enjoyed the course, sometimes it was a little too quick for me, but that just made me learn faster :-) All in all I'd highly recommend this course, lays a good foundation for moving on to other emulation projects.

I love your courses sir, really clear "hello, world" for emulators. Will definitely purchase other things.

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