CHIP-8 Emulator

This project is a simple introduction to emulation.

It follows a virtual CPU architecture, named CHIP-8, and allows you to play CHIP-8 games. The screen is a simple black and white screen, rendering a window of size 64x32 pixels.

It was written in C, using SDL to render the screen.

Use

Build with CMake

This project now supports cross-platform CMake builds (You need SDL2 to have the build work).

Requirements:

• C compiler with C11 support
• SDL2 development package
• CMake 3.16+

Build steps:

cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build

Run:

./build/chip8_emulator

Notes:

• Linux (Debian/Ubuntu): install libsdl2-dev
• Fedora: install SDL2-devel
• macOS (Homebrew): brew install sdl2
• Windows (vcpkg): vcpkg install sdl2 and configure CMake with your vcpkg toolchain file