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+# chip8
+A chip8 emulator that I implemented in C++. It only implements the SCHIP instruction set, and can play many modern roms found online.
+
+This emulator also comes with a WIP compiler that takes a C-style language as input and can spit out valid CHIP-8 code:
+```
+var count = 3;
+label(main);
+count += 3;
+draw_char(0, 5, count)
+jump(main);
+```
+
+There's also a basic memory viewer and "debugger" included as well.