chip8

A chip8 gaming architecture emulator written in C++.

Demo

Note: there are ui issues visible in this screenshot that I've been procrastinating on fixing

Features

• Renders CHIP-8 games using OpenGL.
• Displays disassembly of processed instructions along with current chip8 state.
• Allows to run games in instruction-by-instruction manner.
• Controlled by clicking on displayed keypad with 16 keys.
• Can load files passed as program arguments and selected using interactive file dialog.

Requirements

This repository already contains most of dependecies, either as git submodules, or as regular directories:

• glad
• ImGui
• ImGuiFileDialog
• gtest

It is assumed, that following libraries are already installed on your system:

• glfw3

Building

1. Install required dependencies. For example, on Fedora Linux you would have to run following command:

   sudo dnf install glfw-devel

2. Clone this repository along with dependencies

   git clone --recurse-submodules 'https://github.com/stabor705/chip8' 

3. Build the program using cmake

   cd chip8
   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake ..
   cmake --build .