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Creating A Chip-8 Emulator In C
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8,457 students

Creating A Chip-8 Emulator In C

Learn to create an emulator for a 1970s machine!
Created byDaniel McCarthy
Last updated 4/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • How to create an emulator for the Chip-8 machine
  • Knowledge of how instruction sets work
  • Understanding of how machines work

Course content

6 sections19 lectures5h 7m total length
  • Introduction1:01

Requirements

  • You must be confident in the C programming language
  • You must understand hexadecimal
  • You must understand bitwise operators and bit shifting

Description

In this fantastic course you will learn how to create your very own emulator for the Chip-8 in the C programming language. The Chip-8 is a virtual machine from the mid 1970s designed to make game development easier.

This course is great for anyone who has programming experience and would love to create an emulator but just does not know where to start or has attempted to do it but ran into problems

You are taken through every step of emulator creation, throughout this course we start by setting up our project, then we start writing code to emulate the display and keyboard from the era. We soon move to simulating the entire Chip-8 instruction set.

After you complete this course you will have a fully functioning Chip-8 emulator that can run space invaders, pong and many other classic games.

Who this course is for:

  • People interested in learning how to create an emulator