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Making an Emulator in JavaScript?

watch on portal.gitnation.org ↗https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-javascript
Talkat React Day Berlin 2024 · on Friday, 2024-12-13· at 14:00· [javascript, creative-coding]

speaker

name:Sara Vieira
website:https://iamsaravieira.com

resources

video:https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-javascript
slides:none on file

summary

Covers building a Chip-8 emulator in JavaScript, focusing on rendering the 64×32 monochrome display using the Canvas API and implementing the CPU, memory, and instruction decoding (including switch-based opcode handling). Explains practical details like hexadecimal notation and bitwise operations for byte manipulation, discusses JavaScript performance limits for emulation, and gives legal guidance about not distributing ROMs or proprietary BIOS.

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