This is a fun project to learn and practise the basics of emulation and hands on with some machine code. The emulator is built in C++ using SDL. The project uses SDL for all system operation, windowing, handling sound ( not yet implemented ), input handling, etc.

The project built on VS Community 2022.

Example ROMs are the roms directory. The required dll is attached in the release section. You can use any other rom.

You need Visual Studio to build and run the project.

• Clone the respository

git clone https://github.com/ragnar-vallhala/Chip8_Emulator.git

• Open the sln file of the project.

cd Chip8_Emulator
./Chip8_Emulator.sln

• Build the project with Debug or Release configuration ( depends on your needs ).
• You neet to add the SDL3.dll to the directory containing the Chip8_Emulator.exe. You may find it online, build it from source or download from the release section of the repository.
• To run any rom on emulator, drag and drop the rom the Chip8_Emulator.exe or use command line as ./Chip8_Emulator.exe [path to ROM].

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Ashutosh Vishwakarma
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