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JohnEarnest / Octo

A Chip8 IDE
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Octo reads .sc8/.xo8 files as plaintext, should read them as binaries #169

Closed NinjaWeedle closed 2 years ago

NinjaWeedle commented 2 years ago

Like .ch8, .sc8 and .xo8 are commonly-used filename extensions for chip-8 binaries. .sc8 denotes a SCHIP program, and .xo8 denotes an XO-CHIP program. The only difference between a .xo8/.sc8 file and a .ch8 file is the extension, so I assume it wouldn't be too much work to make Octo recognize these as Chip-8 binaries.

The reason I ask is because the Chip-8 Database uses these extensions for SCHIP and XO-CHIP roms, and having to manually change the file extension whenever I want to test a rom from it in Octo is a bit of a nuisance.

JohnEarnest commented 2 years ago

Seems reasonable, and I don't see any plausible conflicts with existing file extensions.