SDLchip

A simple cross-platform chip8 implementation written in c using the SDL2 graphics library.

• now with emscripten support (desktop only) demo pwa

Precompiled executables

• check the releases tab

How to compile

• just use cmake :) (tested with emscripten, gcc and visual studio)

Controls

• hexpad mapping
  1 2 3 C => 1 2 3 4
  4 5 6 D => Q W E R
  7 8 9 E => A S D F
  A 0 B F => Y X C V

• misc. controls
  ESC - close
  P - pause
  O - reset loaded cartridge

How to run (this doesn't apply to the demo in 0.9)

• get a chip8 cartridge file (.ch8) from the roms folder
• run the executable from terminal with these arguments:
  • relative path of the rom
  • emu speed in Hz (optional)
• if you're on windows you can instead drag and drop your rom file on the executable

Additional features

• a python script to download sdl2 into the appropriate folder (if it seems like it's not doing anything, it's because SDL is quite a big library)
• a python script for converting files to c strings (so they can be compiled as part of the binary) - used for the Tetris demo

Pictures

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