A CHIP-8 emulator written in golang. See this page for information about the CHIP-8 architecture and opcodes.
tcell is used for the terminal interface.
Make sure golang is installed.
To get the package, run:
go get github.com/Bo887/chip8-emulator
The package should now be located in:
$GOPATH/src/github.com/Bo887
To install the package, run:
make install
The binary should be locaed in:
$GOPATH/bin
To remove the package, just simply delete the directory and the binary.
The binary name is chip8-emulator. It takes a single argument of the path to the ROM.
For more information, run:
chip8-emulator --help
A few ROMS are located in the roms/ directory from the project root. A lot more are located here.
For example, running:
chip8-emulator roms/chip8-picture
from the project root directory will display the chip8 logo.
The keypad layout is:
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|1|2|3|4|
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|q|w|e|r|
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|a|s|d|f|
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|z|x|c|v|
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To exit the emulator, press either the ESC or Enter keys.