README.md

Rusty CHIP-8 Emulator

CHIP-8 emulator written in Rust.

• Runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS
  • Downloadable binaries can be found on the GitHub Releases page or via GitHub Actions if you are logged in
• Configurable using config.yml
  • Emulator Speed
  • Screen Scaling
  • Custom key-mappings, configurable per ROM
    • See here for keycode names
• Hot reload emulator with new config (hz, rom, etc.)
  • Default key: R
• Simple Debugger
  • Pause
  • Step back and forth
• Instruction Logging (set log level to TRACE)

Invaders

BRIX

Sources

I used following resources to implement the emulator:

• Wikipedia CHIP8
• CHIP-8 Emulator (@realemulator101)
• CHIP‐8 Technical Reference (mattmikolay)
• How to write an emulator (Laurence Muller)
• Chip-8 Public Domain ROMs