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|title = CHIP-8
|image = PONG CHIP8.png
|imagecaption = Screenshot of Pong implemented in CHIP-8implemention of ''[[wikipedia:Pong|Pong]]''
|developer = Joseph Weisbecker
|release = 1977<ref>Mentioned in [https://archive.org/details/super-elf-manual/page/126/mode/2up Super ELF Manual], in 1977</ref>or 1978
|emulated = {{✓}}
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:''Note: The terms 'emulator', 'interpreter' and 'simulator' are used interchangeably by developers of CHIP-8 interpreters.''
'''[[wikipedia:CHIP-8|CHIP-8]]''' is an [[wikipedia:Interpreter_(computing)|interpreted]] [[wikipedia:Programming_language|programming language]], developed by Joseph Weisbecker.
CHIP-8 was designed to be easy to program for and to use less resources than programming languages like [[wikipedia:BASIC|BASIC]]. <ref>[https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-12/page/n109/mode/2up "An Easy Programming System"] [[wikipedia:Byte_(magazine)|BYTE]] volume. 3, issue 12. December 1978.</ref>
Microcomputers with CHIP-8 support are listed [[#Computers with CHIP-8 support|here]], for other implentations see [[#Interpreters|interpreters]]
