Creating A Chip-8 Emulator In C

$66.99

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.

Requirments

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

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17 Lessons

4H 57M

1. Introduction

1m 1s

2. Chip8 Emulator Overview

13m 28s

3. Setting Up Our Project And SDL

22m 14s

4. Structuring Our Project

7m 48s

5. Implementing The Memory

14m 58s

6. Creating The Registers

8m 38s

7. Creating The Stack

19m 17s

8. Creating The Keyboard

27m 58s

9. Initializing The Chip-8

2m 10s

10. Creating The Default Character Set

7m 32s

11. Creating The Chip-8 Display

12m 49s

12. Drawing Sprites To The Screen

25m 7s

13. Implementing The Delay Timer

3m 12s

14. Implementing The Sound Timer

3m 55s

15. Starting The Creation Of The Instruction Set Simulator

26m 51s

16. Implementing The Chip-8 Instruction Set

1h 36m 39s

17. Speeding Up The Emulator

4m 15s

Daniel McCarthy

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Dragon Zap Instructor

I am a software engineer that has been programming for 14+ years. My experience is vast and covers web development all the way to compiler and interpreter development. I have also developed bootloaders and kernels that can boot from the FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem. I have developed two programming languages of my own. One is called Craft language. The other is called Marble which is a web language like PHP. I am currently developing a C compiler. I have experience in the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, x86 Assembly language, PHP, HTML5, JAVASCRIPT, CSS, Craft, Marble I also have programmed Linux kernel modules professionally in the workplace. These days I am focused on providing my years of expertise to students to help them grow as professional software engineers.

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David Rogers

11 months ago

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

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