CHIP-8 - définition. Qu'est-ce que CHIP-8
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Qu'est-ce (qui) est CHIP-8 - définition

INTERPRETED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
Chip8; Chip-8
  • [[Telmac 1800]] running CHIP-8 game Space Intercept (Joseph Weisbecker, 1978)

CHIP-8         
<language, games> A low-level interpretive language (really a high-level machine code) developed at RCA in the late 1970s for video games on computers using RCA's CDP1802 processor. It could also be used on the DREAM 6800. {Amiga interpreter (ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/f5/ff537/CHIP8.lzh)}. (2002-04-09)
Chip (name)         
GIVEN NAME
Chip (nickname)
Chip is an English given name and nickname in the United States, which is often a diminutive form of Charles or Christopher. Notable people referred to by this name include the following:
System on a chip         
TYPE OF INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; INTEGRATION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF A SYSTEM ON A CHIP
System-on-Chip; System on chip; System on Chip; System On Chip; Socware; Computer on a chip; Radio-on-a-chip; System-on-chip; Computer-on-a-chip; System on a Chip; System-on-a-Chip; System On a Chip; System-on-a-chip; Systems on a Chip; Systems on Chip; Systems on chip; Systems-on-chip
A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system. These components almost always include a central processing unit (CPU), memory interfaces, on-chip input/output devices, input/output interfaces, and secondary storage interfaces, often alongside other components such as radio modems and a graphics processing unit (GPU) – all on a single substrate or microchip.

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CHIP-8

CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker made on his 1802 Microprocessor. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine. It was made to allow video games to be more easily programmed for these computers. The simplicity of CHIP-8, and its long history and popularity, has ensured that CHIP-8 emulators and programs are still being made to this day.

Roughly fifteen years after CHIP-8 was introduced, derived interpreters appeared for some models of graphing calculators (from the late 1980s onward, these handheld devices in many ways have more computing power than most mid-1970s microcomputers for hobbyists).

An active community of users and developers existed in the late 1970s, beginning with ARESCO's "VIPer" newsletter whose first three issues revealed the machine code behind the CHIP-8 interpreter.