chip8emu library

A lightweight, cross platform, C99 implementation of CHIP8 emulation library

Quick started

git clone https://github.com/thaolt/chip8emulator.git
cd chip8emulator
git submodule update --init
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
cd dist/
./chip8emu-termbox

Multiple front-ends

C99

• chip8emu-termbox
• chip8emu-sdl2
• chip8emu-cdk (planned)

C++

• chip8emu-fltk (planned)

How to write your own chip 8 emulator

Related projects

• Chip8EMU Handheld
• Chip8EMU AppGameKit2

Screencasts

Screenshots

SDL2	Termbox

Thanks and credits

Bundled ROMS

Downloaded from https://www.zophar.net/pdroms/chip8/chip-8-games-pack.html

Libraries Used

• Termbox: https://github.com/nsf/termbox
• TinyCThread: https://github.com/tinycthread/tinycthread
• log.c: https://github.com/rxi/log.c

Other resources

Thanks to authors of the articles which help me writing this library

• http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-write-an-emulator-chip-8-interpreter/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8
• http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM

Specials thanks to the Awesome C listing. It's an awesome list of awesome open-source software and libraries written in C, yeah that's a lot of awesome. It was where I found libraries that used in libchip8emu, everyone should check it out.