A Chip-8 emulator written in Vala and SDL
Emul8or is, as the title suggests, a Chip-8 emulator written in the Vala programming language, utilising the SDL library for graphics. It is designed to emulate the Chip-8 and play Chip-8 ROMs.
From Wikipedia:
CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine. It was made to allow video games to be more easily programmed for said computers.
Roughly twenty years after CHIP-8 was introduced, derived interpreters appeared for some models of graphing calculators (from the late 1980s onward, these handheld devices in many ways have more computing power than most mid-1970s microcomputers for hobbyists).
Compilation is easy:
make build
Then to execute, simply run:
./emul8or
Warning
You may need to modify your /usr/include/SDL/SDL_keysym.h file for this to compile. For this reason, I have included in this repository a copy of that file. It has a seperate license to the rest of this repository.
There are 16 keys. These are mapped to the number keys (0-9) and the letters (A-F).
For more information, once compiled run:
./emul8or --help
To install Emul8or after compilation, run:
sudo make install