A Chip-8 interpreter written in Go.
Chip-8 is a simple, interpreted, programming language which was first used on some do-it-yourself computer systems in the late 1970s and early 1980s. With only 4KB of memory and 36 instructions it is the perfect system to build when getting into emulator building.
Clone the repository and install on your machine.
git clone https://github.com/Smelton01/chip8
cd chip8 && go install cmd/chip8/main.go
./chip8Select your favorite game/rom from the menu and start playing.
The CHIP-8 machine uses a hexadecimal keypad with 16 keys, labelled 0 through F, arranged in a 4x4 grid and mapped to a QWERTY layout keyboard as follows.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | C |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | D |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | E |
| A | 0 | B | F |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Q | W | E | R |
| A | S | D | F |
| Z | X | C | V |
Run the following command to run the unit tests for the packages.
go test -v ./...This project is open source and available under the MIT License.