Introduction

This is a simple CHIP-8 emulator for Linux and Windows. It has been tested to compile with GCC (Linux) and MS Visual Studio 2019 (Windows). To find out more about the CHIP-8 please refer to the according Wikipedia page. You can check out the corresponding GitHub repository for a list of implemented features and screenshots. This emulator was created mainly as a learning project.

How to Build

The easiest way to build the emulator is by using CMake and Vcpkg (a package manager). You can follow these steps (both on Linux and Windows):

• Download and install git
• Download and install CMake
• Download and install Vcpkg
• Use Vcpkg to install the following packages:
  • glfw3
  • glad
  • gtest
  • nativefiledialog
  • opengl
• Make sure to set the environment variable VCPKG_ROOT to the directory you installed Vcpkg into.
• Clone the git repository: clone git https://github.com/mgerhold/Chip8Emulator.git
• Run the install script: CMakeVCPKG.bat on Windows, CMakeVCPKH.sh on Linux
  • On Windows this creates a Visual Studio solution in the folder build which you can open and build.
  • On Linux this creates a makefile in the folder build. Just enter this folder and run the make command to build the executable.