Chipper

CHIP-8 Emulator/Interpreter

CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine. It was made to allow video games to be more easily programmed for said computers.

Building

Requires SDL2 to be installed

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

Build

cargo build --release

Running

There are 23 public domain roms available in roms directory.

To load a PONG2 game, run:

cargo run --release -- roms/PONG2

References

Links I've used to create this project

• CHIP-8 - Wikipedia
• Cowgod's Chip-8 Technical Reference
• Guide used - How to write an emulator (CHIP-8 interpreter)