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CHIP-8 is the name given to the interpreted programming language developed in the mid-1970s. The sole purpose of the language was to make video games easily programmable for the machines which employed the programming language and software testing. There exist a number of classic games such as Pong, Tetris, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man that have been ported to CHIP-8. Technically speaking, the games written for CHIP-8 run on the “CHIP-8 Virtual Machine” which has its own instruction set comprising of 35 instructions along with 16 registers. The virtual machine has a resolution of 64 × 32 pixels, and color is monochrome. In this paper, we have implemented a CHIP-8 emulator written in the C programming language. We have handled the drawing on screen with the Simple DirectMedia Layer library (SDL2) and continuous software testing. The CHIP-8 virtual machine is similar to that of the Java virtual machine of the Java programming language but is much simpler in design. We have listed each instruction explaining what it does and how it carries out it while providing the detailed documentation of our CHIP-8 emulator and thus providing metaheuristic high-level solutions to fix them.
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Priyadarshini, S.B.B., Mahapatra, A., Mohanty, S.N., Nayak, A., Jena, J.P., Samanta, S.K.S. (2022). myCHIP-8 Emulator: An Innovative Software Testing Strategy for Playing Online Games in Many Platforms. In: Khari, M., Mishra, D.B., Acharya, B., Gonzalez Crespo, R. (eds) Optimization of Automated Software Testing Using Meta-Heuristic Techniques. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07297-0_9
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