A Chip-8 emulator written in Rust
This is a chip-8 VM built in rust. If you're reading this, chances are that you're thinking of writing your own emulator. You should! It gives you a great feel for how home computers worked back in the late 70s.
You need to have sdl2 installed with headers.
On Linux, run this:
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-gfx-dev
While on Mac:
brew install sdl2_gfx
Clone this repository, then run:
cargo run /path/to/game
You can find public-domain games here.
The entire chip8 keyboard is mapped like this:
Chip8 keyboard:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | C |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | D |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | E |
| A | 0 | B | F |
Is mapped to:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Q | W | E | R |
| A | S | D | F |
| Z | X | C | V |
- Q - Rotate piece
- W - Move left
- E - Move right
- A - Fast drop
- Q - Move left
- E - Move right
- W - Shoot weapon