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Chip-8 Emulator
A C++ Chip-8 emulator with CPU, memory, picture processing, sound support, and SDL2 graphics.
Architecture Overview
The emulator implements the Chip-8 virtual machine: registers, memory, stack, timers, instruction execution, display state, and SDL2-based graphics.
Technical Challenges
- instruction decoding
- memory and stack correctness
- display buffer updates
- sound timer behavior
- SDL2 rendering loop integration
Lessons Learned
Chip-8 is a focused way to practice interpreter loops, binary instruction formats, and hardware-inspired state machines.
Tools
C++, SDL2