gochip-8: CHIP-8 emulartor in Go

gochip-8 is emulator of CHIP-8. container image is stored in Docker Hub.

Build

Download source code and build with make.

git clone --recursive github.com/masu-mi/gochip-8
cd ./gochip-8
make

Requirements

Linux/macOS Go 1.17

how to use it

Usage:
  gochip-8 [command]

Available Commands:
  color       show color chart
  completion  Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help        Help about any command
  start       start CHIP-8 emulator

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for chip-8-term

Use "gochip-8 [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Keyboard layout

[ESC] stop emulator and exit process.

1	2	3	4(C)
Q(4)	W(5)	E(6)	R(D)
A(7)	S(8)	D(9)	F(E)
Z(A)	X(0)	C(B)	V(F)

example

## Space Invaders
./dest/gochip-8 start \
  --color 6 --cpu-hz 300 --keyboard-hz 8 \
  --rom './roms/games/Space Invaders [David Winter].ch8'

## Brix
./dest/gochip-8 start \
  --cpu-hz 300 --keyboard-hz 8 \
  --rom './roms/games/Brix [Andreas Gustafsson, 1990].ch8'

CHIP-8.demo.mp4

ref. youtube