Why you decided to make a Chip8 interpreter?

After finishing the first part of the book "C++ Primer (5th Edition)", which covers the basics of C++, I decided to put everything what I've learned of that part to test.

It was always a dream of my since middle school to make an emulator because I was fascinated how people could manage to make a program that could play for example PlayStation or Nintendo 64 games.

So I decided during that time to make a Chip8 interpreter because it was said the easiest "system" to "emulate". But unfortunately, I couldn't make dream come true because I simply lagged the general knowledge of programming and other concepts.

A decade later, I found a book on an Stack Overflow forum topic about which would be the best book to learn C++. So I decided to buy one of the recommended books. And now here we are.

Dependencies

• SFML
• Google Test (only for unit testing)

Compiling

Chip8 interpreter

$ g++ -std=c++11 -Werror -Wall -Wextra src/main.cpp -lsfml-graphics -lsfml-system -lsfml-window -lsfml-audio -o chip8

Unit tests

$ g++ -std=c++11 -Werror -Wall -Wextra src/test/main.cpp -lgtest -o chip8-test

Usage

$ chip8 [rom-name]

Pictures

Used documentations

• [Chip-8 Technical Reference v1.0] (http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM)
• https://austinmorlan.com/posts/chip8_emulator/
• How to write an emulator (CHIP-8 interpreter)