Chip8-Emulator

💻 Info

A Chip-8 emulator made in C++. It always you to access and play ROMS made for this system. This emulator was written in C++, with CMake, using following libraries:

• SDL2 v-2.28.5
  

To get ROMS I recommend: https://github.com/kripod/chip8-roms

🔨 How to build the project

• Download SDL2 and CMake. (Example based off Ubuntu)

sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev.dnf

• Make a directory for build
• Run cmake and direct it to the directory with CMakeLists.txt
• Run make

mkdir cmake-build
cd cmake-build
cmake ..
make

• Run the program with ROM path as the first argument.

./Chip8_Emulator path/to/ROM

• If you want more options, write --help as the first argument.

./Chip8_Emulator --help

📷Screenshots

• Space Invaders:
  
• Tetris:
  
• OpCodes test:
  

🎮 Controls

Chip-8 has hex keypad (0-F), it was converted to:

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

📄 Links to libraries

SDL website: https://www.libsdl.org/
SDL: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/release-2.28.5