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8 | 95 | |
654 | 1,376 | |
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5.9 | 3.0 | |
7 months ago | 4 days ago | |
JavaScript | C | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Octo
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Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
1. Octo, a CHIP-8 assembler: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo
P.S. Octojam 10 runs until 12:00 AM PST on November 1st! See the following if you're interested! https://itch.io/jam/octojam-10
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Is there a pointer equivalent of declaring an array?
In addition to what other posters suggested, it could be a good idea to try assembly languages as a way to manually work with locations in memory. Something like Octo could be fun if you want to try memory manipulation without worrying about real-world complexities like syscalls and memory alignment. If you want something extra challenging, you could always try x86 / amd64 assembly. Some C compilers even support inline assembly if you want to mix C and assembly.
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How do I make a "game" for Chip8?
Yes, Octo is the most used tool to create CHIP-8 programs today. John has a little introduction text for writing in its dialect here: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo/blob/gh-pages/docs/BeginnersGuide.md
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Feedback on my very own C++ CHIP8 Interpreter/Emulator
I also want to thank you all for all the advice you gave to me and others about CHIP8. It was very helpful to read some posts here ! I also used John Earnest's OCTO a lot for debugging.
- Octo
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Is chip 8 emulator flicker normal?
The octo FAQ touches on this "pre-xoring" technique, and theres a worked example of doing this data preparation in macros. I've also written varioustools that can handle the xoring for you.
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Executable PNGs
In my own system, Octo[0], I encode programs and their metadata in a similar steganographic fashion in GIF files. As others have noted here, both GIF and PNG offer extension mechanisms and ways to embed "comments", but popular image-sharing sites universally re-encode images and discard this data. The advantage of GIF over PNG (for my purposes) is that I store an arbitrary payload in a fixed-looking image by creating additional frames of animation.
In the past, I've also used a different technique- if you simply concatenate a PNG onto a JAR (which is really just a ZIP archive) you end up with a file that acts like a PNG unless you change the extension to JAR, in which case it acts like a Java executable. This works because the PNG header is at the beginning of the file, while the ZIP header is at the end. Nowadays, though, desktop Java is pretty much dead, so it's a less exciting party trick.
[0] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo
ngs
- Next Generation Shell – a modern programming language for DevOps
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Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
Next Generation Shell. As a shell, it's a programming language and a UI. Half baked: programming language - pretty much done, we use it at work; UI - just starting to work on.
Ananlysis of what's wrong with current shells' UIs and how to fix it - https://blog.ngs-lang.org/2023/09/30/ui-in-ngs/
Project - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs
Any help would be appreciated of course :)
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AWS while being great at the underlying services, had by far the worst user experience ever existed on a platform at that scale
The plan for UI is at https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design
- NGS v0.2.16 is out
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How NGS started? – Next Generation Shell
The site is at https://ngs-lang.org/
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Next Generation Shell
Project: https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs
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I'm trying to switch from Python to Lua so I can get into game development... where do I start?
There are number of new ones coming out ...and I'm curious of https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs. As a language nerd, have you seen that?
- Monthly 'Shameless Self Promotion' thread - 2023/01
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Telegraph and the Unix Shell
Thanks, took a note - https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/issues/621
- Building a simple shell in C – Part 3
What are some alternatives?
vis-chip-8 - Visual Chip-8 Emulator
nushell - A new type of shell
chip8-test-rom - ROM for testing chip8 emulator
oil - Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
chip8-test-suite - A collection of ROM images with tests that will aid you in developing your own CHIP-8, SUPER-CHIP or XO-CHIP interpreter (or "emulator")
fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor
wasm4 - Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console.
ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
pixload - Image Payload Creating/Injecting tools
ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
chip8Archive - A repository of community-submitted Chip8 programs and their metadata
bashly - Bash command line framework and CLI generator