CHIP-8
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- 1970-00-00
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- Community
- CHIP-8 extensions and variations
- Virtual machine description
- Memory
- Registers
- The stack
- Timers
- Input
- Graphics and sound
- Opcode table
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
framed|Screenshot of Pong implemented in CHIP-8 thumb|Telmac 1800 running CHIP-8 game Space Intercept (Joseph Weisbecker, 1978)
CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker on his 1802 microprocessor. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800, which were 8-bit microcomputers made in the mid-1970s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “CHIP-8” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.