nibble8

an image showing the output of a chip 8 rom, i.e. the letters C8

Yet another Rust implementation of a Chip-8 interpreter, using sdl2.

Prerequisites

SDL2 development library >= 2.0.5 must be installed. See here for installation instructions.

Usage

cargo run --release <path_to_rom.ch8>

Running the test suite

cargo test

Todo

[ ] Improve keyboard input
[ ] Use a texture to draw rather than copying bit-by-bit
[ ] Improve timers
[ ] Make screen size configurable (?)

Literature

See the following articles on the Chip 8 instruction set. - https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/write-a-chip-8-emulator/ - http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM