arvganesh/chip-8-emulator

An interpreter for CHIP-8 written in C++

CHIP-8-Emulator

An interpreter for CHIP-8 written in C++

Dependencies + Compilation

• Clone the repo git clone
• Install SDL
  • I used this guide for Mac.
• Run make game in the project directory to compile the project

Usage

The expected usage is ./play <ROM> <Delay>

• <ROM> should contain the path to the ROM file.
• <Delay> is the number of milliseconds between emulation cycles.

Keypad

CHIP-8 Keypad's look like this:

1 2 3 C
4 5 6 D
7 8 9 E
A 0 B F

Here is the mapping of the above to the modern QWERTY keyboard:

1 2 3 4    ->    1 2 3 C
Q W E R    ->    4 5 6 D
A S D F    ->    7 8 9 E
Z X C V    ->    A 0 B F

Images

Playing Tetris:

Displaying the IBM Logo:

ROMs

Here is a link to a library of CHIP-8 games to play.

References

• Chip-8 Github Links
• CHIP-8 wikipedia page.