Chip-8 Emulator
Emulation for a 1970s gaming console coded in C and SDL2 library.
Introduction
A Simple Emulator Progaram which can run CHIP-8 Games on Windows, Linux, and Mac.
BRIX Game running on my Linux box.
Installaion
I added Windows and Linux precompiled binaries in bin folder so you can skip compilation
Arch-Linux
$ sudo pacman -S sdl2 make
Debian
$ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev make
Cent-os
$ sudo yum install SDL2-devel make
Mac OS
$ brew install make sdl2
Get a copy of repo and compile
$ git clone https://github.com/c0dysharma/chip8-interpreter.git
$ make
Usage
Unix based
cd into to chip8-interpreter/bin/
$ ./chip8 <path-to-rom-file>
ex- ./chip8 ../roms/BRIX
Windows
Go to chip8-interpreter/bin/ hold down shift and right click on window area and select Open Command Window Here
chip8win.exe <path-to-rom-file>
ex- chip8win.exe ..\roms\BRIX
Control Maps
Game Examples
Space INVADERS
Maze
Missile
UFO
Todos
TODO: add debugger
TODO: add beep sound
TODO: optimise code
Refernces
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8
[1] http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-write-an-emulator-chip-8-interpreter/