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A simple chip-8 emulator

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Pixis

A simple chip-8 emulator

Chip-8 emulators are vitual machines used to run games from the 1970s like pong, tetris, space invaders, etc.

⚠ Disclaimer!

I neither own any of the chip-8 games included, nor do I take any credit for them. All credits to the developers of the games only.

Setup

  • Clone the repository
  • Navigate to the top folder and use make all using Powershell or any other terminal application

How to run

  • Navigate to /Pixis/bin

  • Use ./main.exe and include the path to the game file as shown below

    ./main.exe ./samples/INVADERS

  • Replace ./samples/INVADERS with the path to the game file which is to be run

  • Two sample games from Zophar's Domain has been included in the bin directory, feel free to check out other ones too!