chip8

README

CHIP 8

Chip 8 is a CHIP-8 emulator that runs Chip-8 public domain roms. The Chip 8 actually never was a real system, but more like a virtual machine (VM) developed in the 70’s by Joseph Weisbecker. Games written in the Chip 8 language could easily run on systems that had a Chip 8 interpreter.

Current sources:

• post by Laurence Muller
• CHIP-8 Wiki
• cowgod's chip-8 technical reference
• post by Matthew Mikolay

Installation

You must have golang installed on your machine

go install github.com/anthonygedeon/chip8

Usage

Default clock speed: 60Hz

chip8 run `path/to/rom`

Disassembly

chip8 -d `path/to/rom`

Version

chip8 version

Help

chip8 help

Screenshots

Support Me

Give a ⭐ if this project was helpful in any way!

License

The code is released under the MIT LICENSE.

Documentation

Overview

Package main provides primitive CPU functions i.e fetching - decoding - executing a program.