The long term goal of the project is to use the same implementation with several graphics wrappers such as SDL, X11, and Javascript. Right now, it only supports SDL2.

Building

The entire emulator is built as the default GNU Make routine. The following routines are available along with

Build the emulator (done by default):

$ make
$ make build

Install NPM dependencies:

$ make npm-install

Update NPM dependencies:

$ make npm-update

Running

The executable located in the BUILD folder can be run with a path to a game file (many are included in the GAMES) folder. A simple script is provided to simplify it, that can be used as such:

$ ./run-chip8 [GAME_NAME]

The game name is the name of one of the provided games. If no game name is specified, the list of available games is provided.