A Chip8 Emulator written in C++
SPACE INVADERS
WIPEOFF
CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language orginally developed by Joseph Weisbecker. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. The CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine, the purpose of which was to allow video games to be more easily programmed on these computers (source wiki).
Requires Make and SDL2:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install make
For those who have Advanced Packaging Tool available (i.e., Ubuntu, Debian, etc), you'll want to search the apt-get cache and find the current SDL2 version to install. Use the command:
$ apt-cache search libsdl2
You'll want to download the development version of SDL2 and SDL2-mixer (audio library for sound). As of last update of this README, the development package(s) are libsdl2-dev and libsdl2-mixer-dev. Use command:
$ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev
Clone and Compile:
$ git clone https://github.com/erick-santiago/Chip8-Emulator.git
$ cd Chip8-Emulator
$ make
Run:
$ ./testing_Chip8 ROMs/ROM-NAME-HERE
(example: ./testing_Chip8 ROMs/WIPEOFF)
The ROMs are included in the ROMs directory.
The computers which originally used the Chip-8 Language had a 16-key hexadecimal keypad. Below is the mapping from the original keypad to your current (standard) keyboard.
| Original | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| 1 2 3 C | 1 2 3 4 |
| 4 5 6 D | Q W E R |
| 7 8 9 E | A S D F |
| A 0 B F | Z X C V |
Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Resources used to bring this project to life, and special thanks:
- http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-write-an-emulator-chip-8-interpreter/
- http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM
- https://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.