Being a 90's kid, I grew up with a lot of awesome consoles. With time these retro consoles were ported to the home computer. As a side project I wanted to dive into the world of emulators, i.e. creating code that pretends to be a certain hardware environment whereupon a piece of proprietary software ('ROM') can run. As such, I created this Chip-8 interpreter/emulator that runs Chip-8 Roms.
Features:
- OpenGL rendering
- Very high level of compatibility
TODO list
- Sound implementation (basically a single beep)
- Expanding upon existent documentation
- Better implementation of unit tests
- Quirks mode in order to support Roms that have been badly coded
Installation requirements:
- Python 3.5 >
- Pyglet, py, pytest, and prettytable (see requirements.txt)
Usage
python main.py <ROM NAME>
List of included roms:
- BLITZ
- BOWLING
- BRIX
- HIDDEN
- INVADERS
- LUNAR
- PONG
- ROCKET
- TETRIS
- TICTAC
Keyboard
| Q | W | E |
| A | S | D |
| Z | X | C |
| R | F | V |
| T | G | B |
- SPACEBAR
Props to Matthew Mikolay and his guideline.
Finally, a big thanks goes out to the moral and/or debugging support of Vanja Popovic, Marco Westerhof, and Tiemen Glastra.