Chip 8 Emulator/Interpreter

This is a Chip 8 emulator I wrote to learn C#. The core is decoupled from the UI, so it's possible to implement it using any UI library. For this project I implemented using SFML.

Build

To run, cd into src/Sharp8.UI and run dotnet run [chip 8 rom file]. You need Dotnet 7 SDK.

Debugging

• You can set (multiple) breaking points using -d or --debug-at-address
• You can pause or resume the execution with F5.
• Once paused, either by breaking points or F5, you can use F10 to run the next instruction

Other commands

• You can use -v to show debug information (PC, registers)
• You can use --ips to set number of instructions per second
• Run the program with --help for more information

Sound

This emulator has sound implementation as well. The program will try to load the file assets/beep.wav. You can generate the file by running the C# script CreateBeepSound.csx in the src/Sharp8.UI/ folder, or you can just paste any other wav file.