Chip 8 Virtual Machine

A C-based emulator of Chip 8 and its instruction set. Graphics rendered by SDL2.

Usage

First compile, as usual:

make

To run the emulator:

./chip8 <video-scale> <cycle-delay> <rom-file> <OPTIONAL: disassemble-options>

• video-scale: an integer to scale the display up or down
• cycle-delay: controls speed of the game
• rom-file: pass in any ROM file valid for Chip-8
• OPTIONAL: disassemble-options - either of the following:
  • -d: program will dump each CHIP 8 instruction it runs to stdout
  • -raw: program will dump each instruction, line by line, from the ROM file, translating opcodes into human-readable instruction format