https://github.com/poga/vis-chip-8

Visual Chip-8 Emulator
https://github.com/poga/vis-chip-8

chip-8 emulator

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Visual Chip-8 Emulator

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/poga/vis-chip-8
• Owner: poga
• Created: 2021-01-12T15:51:28.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-01-14T06:25:28.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-15T22:29:17.942Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: chip-8, emulator
• Language: Haxe
• Homepage: https://poga.github.io/vis-chip-8/
• Size: 6.62 MB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# VisChip8

![](./demo.gif)

A Visual Chip-8 emulator. [demo](https://poga.github.io/vis-chip-8/)

* Pass [test rom](https://github.com/corax89/chip8-test-rom)

* Visual Display for current machine states: registers, memory, program counter(`pc`), and `I`.

* **Cross-platform**: Written in [Haxe](https://haxe.org), can be compile to js to run inside browser or to [hashlink](https://hashlink.haxe.org/) to run on local machine.

## Development

Install [Haxe](https://haxe.org), [Heaps](https://heaps.io/), and [Hashlink](https://hashlink.haxe.org/).

Build for browser:

```

$ haxe js.hxml

$ open index.html

```

Build for hashlink:

```

$ haxe hl.sdl.hxml

$ hl ./bin/client.hl

```

## About Chip-8

> 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.

> Roughly fifteen years after CHIP-8 was introduced, derived interpreters appeared for some models of graphing calculators (from the late 1980s onward, these handheld devices in many ways have more computing power than most mid-1970s microcomputers for hobbyists).

> -- wikipedia

## Todo

- [ ] Keyboard input

- [ ] Sound

- [ ] Rom loader

## License

The MIT License

## References

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

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

* https://github.com/corax89/chip8-test-rom

* https://github.com/JamesGriffin/CHIP-8-Emulator/blob/master/src/chip8.cpp

* http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-write-an-emulator-chip-8-interpreter/