Emu8: A Chip-8 emulator

An 8-bit chip emulator written in C, using the SDL2 library.

Installation

You need to have installed the SDL2 library.

In Debian/Ubuntu systems you can use apt to install it.

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev

Usage

First compile the source code with make.

make build 

Then you can run it like this, providing the path to a .ch8 rom.

./emu8 path_to_the_rom

Controls

ESC: exit the program
SPACE: pauses the execution of the program

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Resources

https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/write-a-chip-8-emulator/

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