Jul 28 2011

Open Source iOS and J2ME Chip-8 emulators

I decided to open source my two Chip-8 emulators for J2ME and iOS in GitHub.

The code is quick and dirty but fully functional and the emulation part is quite good. All the games I could find for Chip-8 and Super Chip run fine.

In fact, the iOS Chip-8 emulator was published as a paid application on the App Store during more than a year, before Apple kindly told me to remove it from the store due to some infringements of the terms (no emulators please :-( )

So here it’s the repository for the J2ME edition: https://github.com/ignasan/J2ME-Chip-8-Emulator

And this is the iOS port: https://github.com/ignasan/iPhone-Chip-8-Emulator


Jul 27 2011

Now reading Netbeans IDE 7 Cookbook

Thanks to the people at Packt Publishing I’m currently reading the Netbeans IDE 7 Cookbook that was recently released coinciding with the release of Netbeans 7.

It’s looking quite good, and seems to be a nice collection of solutions and a good starting point for Netbeans newcomers.

Once I’ve finished reading it I will be writing a review here so stay tuned.