matsengI spent some hours coding up the Chip-8 interpreter and got most of it implemented very easily.
But I still have to take care of the problem with the Chip-8 applications running from flash, thus preventing the applications to use unused parts of the 4K area as extra variable storage. Basically I just have to implement a lookup table pointing to the PIC's SRAM area and use that whenever a read/write to the Chip-8 area is detected. This is probably a few hours of coding and debugging - but that's things one have to accept when selecting the "wrong" hardware for a project. :-)
This is the classic MAZE demo running:
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That's some old stuff man.
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sure is.... Of you actually every used a computer with chip-8 when is was invented you'd have a gray beard by now since you would be at least 50 years old... ;-)
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Awesome! btw there's a very interesting book on this maze: http://10print.org/
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Nice! Downloaded for reading next weekend when I'm flying down to Kuala Lumpur. Will have some hours at the airport and another two at the flight to kill.... Thanks.
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cool
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Wow, that maze is pretty cool for a mere 64x32!
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Not only that. Whats really amazing is that it's only 15 lines of Chip-8 code plus 8 bytes of of graphic images! They for sure knew how to make a lot with little back 30-40 years ago. The entire Chip-8 interpreter code fit into 512 bytes of Cosmac 1802....
https://github.com/badlogic/chip8/blob/master/roms/sources/MAZE.SRC
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Very cool, thanks! I implemented it in C just now, doesn't look nearly as cool in ascii ;p
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