chip-8

Implementation of a Chip-8 interpreter.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Screenshots
• Installation
• Usage
• Controls
• Dependencies
• License

Features

• Full CHIP-8 instruction set
• 4096 bytes of memory
• 64x32 pixel display
• special program and index registers
• 16 general purpose registers
• call stack
• delay and sound timer

Installation

Dependencies

• C11 Compiler, Cmake, SDL2

MacOS

brew install sdl2 cmake

Ubuntu

sudp apt install libsdl2-dev cmake build-essentials

Copy the following commands into your terminal to install!

git clone https://github.com/Isocoram/chip-8
cd chip-8
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. && make

Usage

The executable takes the path to a ROM as a command line interface argument i.e. run

./chip8 roms/<rom_name

Controlls

Keyboard	CHIP-8
1 2 3 4	1 2 3 C
Q W E R	4 5 6 D
A S D F	7 8 9 E
Y X C V	A 0 B F

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (or later).