chip-emu

Chip-8 Emulator (interpreter) implemented in C++ with SDL2.

How to Use

Run the emulator from the command line with the filename of a Chip8 rom (.ch8) file.

./chipemu roms/pong.ch8

How to Build

• Ensure you have installed SDL2 and SDL2_mixer. As an Arch user I got both packages with yay.

cmake .
make

Design

• Based on two classes, Chip8 and Frontend
• Chip8 acts strictly as backend: Frontend tells Chip8 when to run a CPU cycle, sets key states, and draws the contents of its screen buffer.
• Decoupled enough that it should be easy enough to write another frontend (which I might do with ncurses...)