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.
Skill LevelIntermediate
Estimated Learning Time5h 4m
Lessons18
Your ProgressStart anytime
What you'll 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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Who this course is for
People interested in how to create an emulator
Requirements
You must be confident in the C programming language
You must understand hexadecimal
You must understand bitwise operators and bit shifting
Curriculum
18 Lessons • 5h 4m estimated learning time
18 videos5h 4m video
Lessons
18 Lessons5h 4m
2m
14m
23m
4. Structuring Our Project
8m
5. Implementing The Memory
15m
6. Creating The Registers
9m
7. Creating The Stack
20m
8. Creating The Keyboard
28m
9. Initializing The Chip-8
3m
10. Creating The Default Character Set
8m
11. Creating The Chip-8 Display
13m
12. Drawing Sprites To The Screen
26m
13. Implementing The Delay Timer
4m
14. Implementing The Sound Timer
4m
15. Starting The Creation Of The Instruction Set Simulator
27m
16. Implementing The Chip-8 Instruction Set
1h 37m
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Student reviews
4.40from 5 reviews
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Omar Belghaouti
Interesting topic, I have followed along with my Zig implementation, it was nice and interactive
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Brian Candido
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...
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Derwin Prince
Good
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Russell Willis
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...
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David Rogers
I love your courses sir, really clear "hello, world" for emulators. Will definitely purchase other things.
