A CHIP-8 emulator in C++
Space Invaders
Pong
CHIP-8 is an interpretted programming language developed by Joseph Weisbecker in the mid 70s and was initally used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers to make game programming easier. CHIP-8 programs are run using a CHIP-8 virtual machine.
This is a fairly complete implementation of a CHIP-8 virtual machine however there is currently no sound.
Requires SDL2.dll:
To run, use three command-line arguments:
Scale: The CHIP-8 video buffer is only 64x32, so we’ll need an integer scale factor to be able to play on our big modern monitors.
Delay: The CHIP-8 had no specified clock speed, so we’ll use a delay to determine the time in milliseconds between cycles. Different games run best at different speeds, so we can control it here.
ROM: The ROM file to load.
example: Run:
mingw32-make -f Makefile
./Main 10 1 <ROM file>