Ferrous is a (super) Chip-8 interpreter written in Rust.
Ferrous requires that you have the latest stable Rust compiler, and also have GTK and ALSA development libraries installed on Linux systems.
After ensuring the above, clone the repository and run cargo build --release. The binary will be created
in the directory ./target/release. You can then copy the binary to any location of your choosing.
Note: There are prebuilt binaries available for Windows and Linux platforms in the releases section.
Execute Ferrous' binary, and you will be up and running.
./ferrous-native
Ferrous is certainly not perfect, but it supports the following features:
- Tweak the behaviour of some ambiguous instructions for maximum compatibility.
- Accurate Chip-8 and Super Chip-8 emulation (interpretation?)
- Rich native frontend with support for debugging and more.
- Extremely simple and easy to understand core logic implementation.
- CowGod's Chip-8 Technical Reference (doesn't work with HTTPS)
- mattmikolay's Chip-8 Reference
- Super Chip-8 Specification
Ferrous is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.