pich8-go

A cross-platform CHIP-8, SUPER-CHIP and XO-CHIP interpreter written in Go

Ported from my original Rust pich8 interpreter.
The goal was give Go a try, I had no prior experience.

Screenshot

Key Mapping

As with most other emulators, the keys are mapped as follows.
On other keyboard layouts it should be the same keys (not the same characters) as the keys are determined by scancode.

    Keyboard                     CHIP-8
┌───┬───┬───┬───┐           ┌───┬───┬───┬───┐
│ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │           │ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ C │
├───┼───┼───┼───┤           ├───┼───┼───┼───┤
│ Q │ W │ E │ R │           │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ D │
├───┼───┼───┼───┤     →     ├───┼───┼───┼───┤
│ A │ S │ D │ F │           │ 7 │ 8 │ 9 │ E │
├───┼───┼───┼───┤           ├───┼───┼───┼───┤
│ Z │ X │ C │ V │           │ A │ 0 │ B │ F │
└───┴───┴───┴───┘           └───┴───┴───┴───┘

Build

On Linux, following packages are required.

$ sudo apt-get install -y libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev libasound2-dev

Afterwards the build can simply be done using go.

$ go build

To hide the console window on Windows, use the following command.

> go build -ldflags -H=windowsgui