Chipsy is a chip-8 emulator written in rust.
CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine. It was made to allow video games to be more easily programmed for these computers, but CHIP 8 is still used today, due to its simplicity, and consequentually on any platform and its teaching of programming Binary numbers.
read detail about chip-8 on wikipedia
You need to install SDL2 libs to be able to run Chipsy.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev
follow this link to install SDL2 on other platform.
cargo build --release
find your build output in ./target/release/chipsy
./chipsy [ROM_FILE]
ROM_FILE is your rom file name with it's path. e.g:
chipsy ./roms/INVADERS
Currently Chipsy is still on early development stage. It's only cover original (classic) chip-8 implementation. Hope it's able to cover chip-8 extensions such as SUPER-CHIP 1.1 and the relative newcomer XO-CHIP in the future. Below is Chipsy target features:
| Features | Status |
|---|---|
| Original interpreter | ✔️ |
| Chip-8 extensions | ❌ |
| Game Debugger | ❌ |
| Rom Disassembler | ❌ |
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.