NovelCHIP-8

A CHIP-8 emulator powered by NovelRT!

This was really created for two purposes:

1. Seeing how an emulator works, and
2. Seeing if I can create something using NovelRT (which I happen to be a developer for). (Making emulators in game engines is usually overkill, but i digress...)

I'm more or less proud of the second one, and although I wound up using a lot of reference material for #1, it was definitely an experience nonetheless!

Running

Chip8.exe [insert path to CHIP-8 rom here]

Example: chip8.exe C:\roms\PONG (Your CHIP-8 rom may or may not have a file extension on it.)

Build Requirements (for Windows)

• CMake (at least version 3.13 or higher)
• Git for Windows
• Visual Studio 2017/2019
• vcpkg (found here)

Building

1. Clone the repository
2. Use the following command for vcpkg to pull all dependencies required by NovelRT: vcpkg install freetype glad glfw3 glm gtest libsndfile lua nethost openal-soft spdlog --triplet x64-windows
3. Once the above command is performed, use the following command to tell vcpkg that we'd like to use it's toolchain: vcpkg integrate install Please notate the path that the command gives you in regards to the toolchain file that it created.
4. Navigate back to the repository's folder, and create a build folder (no in-source building please!). Then, navigate inside the folder you just created.
5. Use the following to tell CMake to generate the solution files with the following: cmake ../. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=[path-to-vcpkg-toolchain-file] (Note: You may have to specify -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" -A x64 or -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 respectively if it does not automatically specify Visual Studio as the generator.)
6. That's it! If done successfully, CMake should have generated the solution, and you can build normally within Visual Studio.