by Dale Nunns - https://xor.co.za
//TODO: This is still very much a work in progress
CHIP-8 Emulator written in .NET Core 2.2 - built as an exercise to learn the .NET Core tooling and how emulators work.
Mostly built based on the info on the CHIP-8 Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8)
You can find the slides from the accompanying talk at https://xor.co.za/talks/chip8ndale2/
0-9 on the numeric keybpad as input to the game. (Note that A-F is not currently implemented.)
You'll need the dotnet tooling and then run dotnet restore to restore all of the dependencies.
Contains the core CHIP8 emulator code.
Contains some test ROMS, not all of the ROM images in the zip files will work on this emulator.
Console UI / Interface that makes use of the CHIP8 Emulator Core.
To launch and run the console version of the emulator you can run it with the following command.
dotnet run -p chip8.console chip8.roms/PONG
Note that the console interface is a little buggy and keypresses don't quiet work.
GTK# + Skia# UI that makes use of the CHIP8 Emulator Core.
This has currently only been tested on Ubuntu Linux, should work on Windows assuming GTK is available.
To launch run the following command.
dotnet run -p chip8.gtkskia chip8.roms/PONG
To launch the debug mode use the following command.
dotnet run -p chip8.gtkskia -debug chip8.roms/PONG
Pause will pause the emulation.
Step will step one instruction forward.
Play will continue running the emulation.
Reset resets the emulation.
