Chip8 Emulator/Interpreter

Reference

All system specs are derived from the following document. http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM

Requirements

Windows is not supported.

SDL2 graphic library is required to run the emulator, and MacOS users should use Xcode.

Linux

SDL2: https://wiki.libsdl.org/Installation

MacOS

SDL2: https://wiki.libsdl.org/Installation To install with Xcode: https://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/01_hello_SDL/mac/index.php

Example Programs

You can find example Chip8 programs all around the web, make sure they're compiled before using them with the emulator/interpreter.

https://johnearnest.github.io/chip8Archive/

https://github.com/kripod/chip8-roms

TODO

Use different timing system, because SDL GetTicks is only accurate to milliseconds, thus introducing some timing issues with DT and cycle frequency.
Add debug screen to view memory/register values.