Chip-8 Emulator

This project was my first foray into interpreters, emulators, and virtual machines. It's a fairly basic Chip-8 emulator with debugging tools that focuses on customizability.

Authors

• @omrawaley

Demo

Features

• Load ROMs from CLI or GUI
• Reset ROMs
• Adjust ROM speed
• Pause ROMs
• Customize display colors
• Take screenshots
• Edit and view memory
• View registers, stack, and timers at runtime
• Adjust program counter while paused

A Chip-8 assembler that I've written can be found at https://github.com/omrawaley/chip-8-assembler.

Installation

Use the provided CMakeLists.txt and compile with make.

  cmake CMakeLists.txt
  make

Usage

./bin/chip8 <path-to-rom>

Keys

P - Pause ROM.

M - Open settings menu.

N - Open debug panes.

Todo

• Migrate from C-style arrays to std::array
• Allow the user to modify IPS rather than frame time
• Add more CLI arguments
• Allow the user to step through the program
• Migrate away from using tellg() and instead use file_size()

License

Chip-8 emulator - GPLv3

Dear ImGui - MIT

stb_image_write.h - Public Domain