lrichyl/chip-8

A Chip-8 system emulator.

Chip-8

A Chip-8 emulator made in C using my DefEngine library for rendering and input.
To run a ROM you need to provide the name of the file as a command line argument (including the file extension).

Keypad

Here you can see the original keypad distribution in the systems that ran Chip8, and below there's the equivalent keys for this emulator.

╔═══╦═══╦═══╦═══╗  
║ 1 ║ 2 ║ 3 ║ C ║  
╠═══╬═══╬═══╬═══╣  
║ 4 ║ 5 ║ 6 ║ D ║  
╠═══╬═══╬═══╬═══╣  
║ 7 ║ 8 ║ 9 ║ E ║  
╠═══╬═══╬═══╬═══╣  
║ A ║ 0 ║ B ║ F ║  
╚═══╩═══╩═══╩═══╝  
        ║  
╔═══╦═══╦═══╦═══╗  
║ 1 ║ 2 ║ 3 ║ 4 ║  
╠═══╬═══╬═══╬═══╣  
║ Q ║ W ║ E ║ R ║  
╠═══╬═══╬═══╬═══╣  
║ A ║ S ║ D ║ F ║  
╠═══╬═══╬═══╬═══╣  
║ Z ║ X ║ C ║ V ║  
╚═══╩═══╩═══╩═══╝  

Compiling

To compile the emulator you need to have MinGW installed on your computer, and have g++ added to the PATH environment variable, then run the build_release.bat file.

ROMS

These are some of the tested ROMs that worked correctly on this interpreter.

PONG

BREAKOUT

WIPEOFF

WALL

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