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Chip8/SChip8 Emulation Library & Games v0.9 Beta

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chiplib.zip
Filename chiplib.zip
Title Chip8/SChip8 Emulation Library & Games v0.9 Beta
Author Noah Stein (NDStein@aol.com)
Category TI-92 Assembly Games (Fargo II)
File Size 36,287 bytes
File Date and Time Thu Dec 31 16:17:59 1998
Documentation Included? Yes
Source Code Included? Yes

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REVIEWS

Review
Review by  Nature Leseul
Reviewed on 2004-11-22
Attention span: 6/10 Standard classic games
Controls: 4/10 Unintuitive and unresponsive. Just like the original.
Implementation: 7/10 Pretty well-done emulation.
Overall: 7/10 Relive the old days!

A rising scene in the current world of computers with gigs of memory stuffed into their internal fixed disks and RAM spilling out their auditory ports, emulation gives people a chance to relive the golden age of gaming, before the rise of Nintendo and Sega, in the days when Atari reigned supreme and you were lucky if you had more than 2-color graphics. Despite squabbles over the legality of the scene, it remains well-liked by avid gamers in attempts to disprove the ancient proverb "You can't go back again."

The Chip8 is fairly standard of old-style game systems; blocky graphics, slow animation, and strange play control. This emulator conveys that style quite well. It comes packaged with a big humongous pile of games. Some are rather interesting, some are pretty lame, ranging in interest level from a Simon-type game called Merlin to a Nibbles game called Syzygy which is much more challenging than any current Nibbles games.

The play control is completely horrible. A 4x4 array of buttons covers all functions, which wouldn't be so bad except that the exact function of each button is different for every single game. I can understand 2, 4, 6, and 8 for down, left, right, and up, but Syzygy's 6, 1, 2, and 9??? Of course, the control was undoubtedly like this in the original Chip8, so we're just recapturing the spirit of frustrating yourself by not knowing what button to push that filled classsic gaming, I guess.

Some of the games work okay, but some still have garbled graphics, which I assume wil be fixed in a future version.

If you really are a hardcore fan of classic gaming, or if you just want to see how much we've progressed since the '80's, go on and check this out.

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ARCHIVE CONTENTS

Archive Contents
Name Size
CHIPLIB.TXT    4562
CHIPLIB.92P    2872
CHIPLIB.ASM    23606
CHIPGAME/PONG2.92P    443
CHIPGAME/INVADERS.92P    1463
CHIPGAME/VBRIX.92P    683
CHIPGAME/BLITZ.92P    567
CHIPGAME/TETRIS.92P    671
CHIPGAME/HIDDEN.92P    1027
CHIPGAME/UBOAT.92P    2191
CHIPGAME/ANT.92P    3371
CHIPGAME/ALIEN.92P    983
CHIPGAME/15PUZZLE.92P    563
CHIPGAME/BLINKY.92P    2535
CHIPGAME/BRIX.92P    455
CHIPGAME/CONNECT4.92P    1031
CHIPGAME/GUESS.92P    323
CHIPGAME/KALEID.92P    299
CHIPGAME/MAZE.92P    211
CHIPGAME/MERLIN.92P    523
CHIPGAME/MISSILE.92P    359
CHIPGAME/PUZZLE.92P    363
CHIPGAME/SYZYGY.92P    1123
CHIPGAME/TANK.92P    735
CHIPGAME/TICTAC.92P    663
CHIPGAME/UFO.92P    399
CHIPGAME/VERS.92P    407
CHIPGAME/WIPEOFF.92P    383
CHIPGAME/CAR.92P    495
CHIPGAME/FIELD.92P    1035
CHIPGAME/JOUST.92P    2551
CHIPGAME/PIPER.92P    2003
CHIPGAME/RACE.92P    323
CHIPGAME/SPACEFIG.92P    3019
CHIPGAME/WORM3.92P    539

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