CHIP-8

CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language created by Joseph Weisbecker for the RCA 1802 microprocessor, first used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 microcomputers in the mid-1970s. Programs are written as hexadecimal instruction codes and run inside a small virtual machine rather than being compiled or assembled, which was intended to let hobbyist programmers write games using less memory than a language like BASIC while staying easier to use than raw machine code. CHIP-8 interpreters have since been reimplemented on a very wide range of hardware, from later home computers and graphing calculators to phones and game consoles, and it remains a common first project for people writing emulators or interpreters today. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/