achip8emu

In order to deep-dive into emulators, I decided to start with the so-called simplest emulator project, therefore a Chip-8 Emulator.

Dependencies:

• SDL2

On Ubuntu machines, install with:

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev

On other systems, you're on your own for now.

Building

From the project root directory, create a build folder, run cmake and build:

mdkir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j

Testing

There are two rom in the support directory that can be used to test:

• ibm_logo.ch8 --> prints the IBM logo on the screen (good for debugging screen drawing issues)
• test_opcode.ch8 --> tests all opcodes and print either OK or NO.

Simply run the binary built in the build folder and pass a rom as the argument. From the root folder:

build/achip8emu support/test_opcode.ch8