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 currently the sound seems to behave weird in some ROMs.
$ ./chip8 roms/PONG2 20 500
$ ./chip8 roms/INVADERS 20 500
Requires SDL2:
$ sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
Compile:
$ make
Run:
$ ./chip8 <rom file> <video scale> <clock rate>
Public domain ROMs/Test ROMs I found and used for developing the emulator are included in roms/ and test_roms/.
Some helpful resources I used:
- CHIP-8 Wikipedia page
- Guide to making a CHIP-8 emulator by Tobias V. Langhoff
- BUILDING A CHIP-8 EMULATOR by Austin Morlan