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• 04 Jan 2021

  

  CHIP-8 in hardware - part 3 (drawing, VGA)

  In the last part I ended up with a partially working CPU with most of the single-clock instructions implemented. So far, all of the testing was done in simulator only, and it’s about time to to get a …

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• 24 Dec 2020

  

  CHIP-8 in hardware - part 2 (CPU)

  Continuing with the implementation of CHIP-8 in Verilog, I wanted to continue with the CPU module and get it to actually execute some instructions, so we’ll build an instruction decoder, CPU states …

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• 14 Dec 2020

  

  CHIP-8 in hardware - part 1 (ALU)

  I got into FPGAs with the intent of building a retro-computer. A couple of popular hardware implementation targets are Gameboy, NES, RISC-V and CHIP-8. Last year I’ve done my practice round with 6502 …

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• 07 Dec 2020

  

  CHIP-8 emulator in C

  CHIP-8 is one of the most popular target architectures for aspiring emulator writers. I’m planning to implement it in hardware, so I thought that writing a software emulator/interpreter would be …

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• 20 Oct 2019

  

  Fantasy console on a console

  Back in April 2019 I decided to get into emulation and thought about writing a simple one. I read about the MOS 6502 microprocessor and it looked promising as it was used in famous products such as …

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