View Source Chip8.Interpreter.Timer (chip8 v1.0.0)
A timer is an 8-bit integer that decrements at a constant rate.
Timers can have two different states, active and inactive. A timer is
active whenever its value is above 0, while in this state, the value
decrements whenever a ticks occurs until it reaches 0, when it becomes
inactive and stops decrementing. On each tick, the value decrements on
steps of 1, and they should run at a rate of 60Hz
. Such rate needs to
configured externally, it is common that emulators tie up this with the
display's refresh rate.
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@type t() :: %Chip8.Interpreter.Timer{value: non_neg_integer()}