chip8EMU

The goal of this project is to implement a Chip-8 interpreter. This is a starter project for me to get into low-level programming and emulations. It's using C++17 features so you will need a more or less up-to-date compiler to build it. Build instructions are below. First some clips of it being in use in it's current state.

The game selector

Playing WIPEOFF

Changing the clockspeed while playing

Stepping through the clockcycles

Red clockspeed means the emulator can't go faster

Dependencies

• Compiler with C++17 support
• CMake
• SFML

Build Instructions

Linux

Install the dependencies and then run

$ mkdir build
$ cd build/
$ cmake ..
$ cmake --build .
$ ./Chip8EMU

Windows

Install the dependencies and then run

$ mkdir build
$ cd build/
$ cmake ..
$ cmake --build .
// copy SFML dll's into the build directory
$ ./Chip8EMU

Running

The emulator expects to find the roms and resources folders in it's parent directory. So make sure to run it from the correct working directory.