chip8

A chip8 emulator written in C++.

Closely follows Cowgod's manual: http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM#00E0

Building

Create a build directory and use cmake to build the project.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..

Usage

Run the emulator on the command line:

chip8 <path to game rom>
chip8debug <path to game rom>

There are some ROMs here: https://www.zophar.net/pdroms/chip8/chip-8-games-pack.html

Dependencies

SDL2: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/release-2.26.5
SDL2_ttf: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_ttf/releases/tag/release-2.20.2

For MSVC users, drag the SDL library folders into the project root and name them SDL2 and SDL2_ttf.