A Chip-8 Emulator Written In C
this is my first step into low-level stuff, i look forward on building more emulators & once i have some money i want to build a small computer with a 6502 or a z80.
chip-8 is kinda like a "specification" which decribes how a chip-8 machine should work, i am not aware of any "true" chip-8 cpu but it's quite easy to build a emulator of.
i tried to make the emulator as accurate as possible and for that i used chip-8 test suite, which provides many roms to test various things like opcodes, flags etc.
i'm using this keymap:
CHIP-8 My Keyboard
_______________ _______________
| 1 | 2 | 3 | C | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
|---|---|---|---| |---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 5 | 6 | D | | Q | W | E | R |
|---|---|---|---| --> |---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 8 | 9 | E | | A | S | D | F |
|---|---|---|---| |---|---|---|---|
| A | 0 | B | F | | Z | X | C | V |
\---------------/ \---------------/
make sure you have GNU Make, GCC/Clang & SDL2 Installed, then clone the repo
make all -j4
you will have a executable named chip-8, run the executable and pass a path to a rom...