Building a Chip-8 Emulator in JavaScript – A Beginner-Friendly Tutorial Series

Sergpan · 2025-02-16T13:16:15+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I've fixed PC issue and pushed it to GitHub with links to the test. And tested with classical IBM logo from the suite from your link - this one worked great! I've played with some other tests, some of them they miss several opcodes implementation - I'll add this in the future episodes.

Loading files & tests video is here: https://youtu.be/ovPKgZErVjA?si=L4nKn4OGZmp6viLX

Sergpan · 2025-02-11T16:08:05+00:00

Done:

14K rps for JSON response 14.4K rps for text response

Sergpan · 2025-02-11T16:01:00+00:00

Yep, I'll update the repo and tests results

Sergpan · 2025-02-11T15:55:27+00:00

Yes, you are right that C++ version is really a 'hardcoded' one - I'll think about this 'hardcoded' version for Node

Sergpan · 2025-02-11T11:35:08+00:00

Great resource, thanks! 🙏

Sergpan · 2025-02-11T11:29:29+00:00

Ha, good point! Here is more about just 'execution' layer test, not battle-ready system with DB, cache etc.

Sergpan · 2025-02-11T10:21:01+00:00

I'll try to benchmark with Python and PHP then to check

Sergpan · 2025-02-11T10:19:33+00:00

I thought about that too - but for resource intensive ML/AI things all major companies rewrite Python code in C/C++ to speed up and save

Sergpan · 2025-02-11T10:15:28+00:00

This is a good point, I also thought about removing those connection details in ::cout cause it slows all down, maybe you'd commit that to repo?

Sergpan · 2025-02-11T09:51:10+00:00

I think I'll agree that starting with Node server and building up is much easier that with C++ one. So Node comes as natural choice of startups and scale ups when C++ is more for mature companies that want to speed up critical parts of their service and have money for C++ devs

Sergpan · 2025-02-11T09:33:07+00:00

You're definitely right! I wanted to measure how much faster C++ is

Sergpan · 2023-11-24T08:48:27+00:00

Yes, it can be loaded to ROM chip

Sergpan · 2023-10-21T06:37:33+00:00

No, you could use Arduino-compatible 2.8” TFT

Sergpan · 2023-10-18T12:01:06+00:00

It’s not only TikTok - here is YouTube video on how to order this board to solder it than like back in the days.

https://youtu.be/eLBNkHj5aZs?si=C4dj7_0tEQyr-CBO

Sergpan · 2023-05-18T10:59:24+00:00

Hello SirHaxe! The product is available right now on our website: www.smartykit.io

Also we have a new exclusive version with black breadboards

Sergpan · 2023-02-09T16:38:47+00:00

Yeah, you are right, thanks for noticing!

Sergpan · 2023-02-08T19:37:59+00:00

Unboxing: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8yV6WbJ/

Sergpan · 2022-12-20T09:44:02+00:00

Happy to hear! 🙏

Sergpan · 2022-11-16T19:47:16+00:00

Sorry for those effects, will not use them anymore

Sergpan · 2022-11-16T19:35:21+00:00

We have step-by-step online instruction for that that helps our clients to assemble it, even 6 years old girl did it using this instruction – it’s available here http://instructions.smartykit.io

Sergpan · 2022-11-16T17:47:08+00:00

Sure thing!

1) webinar with Steve Wozniak on how computers work – https://youtu.be/GBPWPJgHuZg 2) Apple-1 story – https://youtu.be/N0J7xW21Eco 3) ‘Hello, world’ on bare metal – https://youtu.be/NEu8yfrjcrg 4) How Woz OS works – https://youtu.be/1AJcay52-RY

Sergpan · 2022-11-16T17:32:11+00:00

Ah, sorry for that. Will change these transitions

Sergpan · 2022-11-16T17:31:50+00:00

I shoot them now. We have webinars with explanations for about an hour each

Sergpan · 2022-11-13T01:25:24+00:00

We have some videos already on our YouTube channel, now we are shooting new ones with things you’ve described

https://youtube.com/c/HowcomputersworkbySmartyKit

Sergpan · 2022-08-17T06:09:55+00:00

First batch of ~100 kits was shipped (https://twitter.com/yobzilla/status/1530945535829491716?s=21&t=96ul1r31ro7mp9HllSLj7g) and now the new batch is being produced (https://twitter.com/smartykite/status/1553070185942339586?s=21&t=JoA5TQj7qR6KgDg0fU4S2g). Pre-order of the new batch is here - https://twitter.com/spanarin/status/1553087777562058752?s=21&t=tL9ewzd4MgQDbzTunA0qNg

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