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An interpreter for CHIP-8, SCHIP and XO-CHIP in MicroPython for the Thumby playable keychain by TinyCircuits

License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Python 97.31% Shell 2.69%

emulator vm interpreter chip-8 micropython thumby tinycircuits schip xo-chip

thumby-silicon8's Issues

Interpreter is too slow (at least in emulator)

Ideas to try:

Get rid of planeBuffer to display conversion overhead by having the draw function just operate on a single plane (or maybe two, but not technically eight)
Compile C code to RP2040 (or Python to Python bytecode..?) and include that as an .mpy file (link, link)
Compile the original Silicon8 Go code to RP2040 using TinyGo and build the interpreter that way, or include that as an .mpy file. But I haven't yet been able to find any information on the latter.

These are all ideas to play with when I receive the actual Thumby hardware. .mpy modules require a file system, which the emulator currently does not have. Also, I don't currently have an accurate idea of just how fast the hardware really is.

.8o files?

I found this software on the code.thumby.us website and want to run the game below. Can I do it?

Game

Program crashes on launch on thumby

I coped everything from the Silicon8 directory to my thumby, it flashes the title screen for less than a second and just reboots back the the thumby menu. Am I supposed to put the test files in there somewhere also?

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