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Lord Windy
Mar 26, 2010
The Chip-8, could it load data from files or was it simply hand loaded into RAM?

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Lord Windy
Mar 26, 2010
Well, reading through the documentation there appears to be a command called 0x0nnn which is used by the system to jump to another section in the machine. If I'm not wrong, that is a 20bit address space. There are 8 reserved 0x0nnn instructions, 2 from the original Chip-8 and 6 from Super-48 but any decent compiler can get around that.

I've got a major assignment I've got to do for Uni. I don't really know how to do this, but this seems like an interesting project and I want to help. Do you think we can talk?

EDIT:

And already wrong, it's a 12 bit address. I'm an idiot and forgot how hexadecimal works. But still, the RCA-1802 has a 16bit address bus so I think that is workable along with the 64 flags.

Lord Windy fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Jul 31, 2014

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