Chip 8 Emulator written in C

Documentation for Chip 8 Emulator

Prerequisites

• SDL2 Library

Installing

This project was developed on mac, installing the SDL2 library simply required using brew install sdl2 Refer to the SDL2 documentation for installing the library on your preferred platform.

Makefile

The Makefile is in the root directory of the repository.

The makefile contains a number of useful commands which are documented below:

make or make chip8 will build all object files necessary and put them in the obj directory then proceed to compile all object files into a single executable, chip8.

make clean will clean the workspace up removing everything besides the source code & documentation.

Usage

Running the executable file chip8 will start the chip 8 emulator.

Directories

• src (Contains source code)
• include (Contains header files)

main.c

This code is the main entrypoint for the emulator and glues all components together that characterize the chip 8 emulator. The SDL2 setup and boilerplate code resides here.

Authors

• Erik Haight