chip-infinite

Yet another Chip-8 emulator made purely for educational purposes

Build Instructions

Install Dependencies

SDL2 is required for this program.

Then clone this repository and build the executable:

git clone https://github.com/OutOfCache/chip-infinite.git
cd chip-infinite
go build

Usage

./chip-infinite /path/to/rom

Future Features

• double buffering
• debugger
• support for SUPER-CHIP
• command line options
  • screen size
  • configure button layout
• GUI

Resources

Chip-8 and its emulation

• Wikipedia
• How to write an emulator (CHIP-8 interpreter)
• Cowgod's Chip-8 Technical Reference
• Zenogais' Emulation Tutorials
• Zilmar's EmuBook
• metteo's test rom
• corax89's test rom

SDL

• Lazy Foo' Productions' SDL Tutorials
• go-sdl2's godoc page
• go-sdl2's examples
• SDL Wiki
• Audio Programming Tutorial
• golang's cgo (for SDL Audio)

Helpful github projects

• https://github.com/jamesmcm/chip8go
• https://github.com/fogleman/nes