Show HN: I wrote a custom assembler for CHIP-8 in C++
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Show HN: I wrote a custom assembler for CHIP-8 in C++.
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I'm writing a custom assembler for CHIP-8 and just finished adding support for the DB/.byte directive so I can embed sprites in the ROM and finally get something drawn on the screen.
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It SHOULD support all OG CHIP-8 instructions, but still a ton of rough edges that I'm ironing out.This is my first ever C++ project, just like the CHIP-8 emulator was my first ever C (and emudev) project.
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It's so satisfying to write assembly and have your program spit out a ROM that actually runs in the emulator you wrote.All code is written by me (a lot of it livestreaming) as evident by the quality, no AI.
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