chipp

toy implementation of the chip-8 virtual machine in c++

made with the help of tobias langhoff's excellent documentation

to compile:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ggliv/chipp
cd chipp
mkdir build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make -j$(nproc)

to run:

./chipp $PATH_TO_ROM_FILE

you can find some cool roms to play around with here

controls:

most chip-8 games are programmed to use the cosmac vip's keypad layout, which looks like this:

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

on a qwerty layout, those are mapped like this:

1	2	3	4
Q	W	E	R
A	S	D	F
Z	X	C	V