Writing an Emulator in Go

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I’ve spent the last couple of weeks writing a CHIP-8 emulator in my free time. I have been talking about writing an emulator in my blog for a while now. I wanted to write a Z80 emulator after playing Metal Gear Solid Ground Zero but I settled for writing a CHIP-8 emulator. In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest). I’ve been fascinated with an emulator ever since I was a kid. I think my first emulator was CVGX, I spent countless hours playing TEKKEN 3 on it only to realize that it was emulating a PlayStaiton 1. Then I spent countless hours playing Smackdown Here Comes the…from gyani.net

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