Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

CHIP-8
     
         A low-level interpretive language (really a
        high-level {machine code}) developed at {RCA} in the late
        1970s for video games on computers using {RCA}'s {CDP1802}
        processor.  It could also be used on the {DREAM 6800}.
     
        {Amiga interpreter
        (ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/f5/ff537/CHIP8.lzh)}.
     
        (2002-04-09)