borgerr / rite-emu

A CHIP-8 emulator written entirely in rust. 🦀

rite-emu - A CHIP-8 Emulator

Since the CHIP-8 is the rite of passage emulator. Get it? ...Get it?

Building

This is a rust project, so do whatever you do with that on your system. Refer to rustup.rs and the rust docs for platform specific instructions.

Controls

This project uses the standard for COSMAC VIP keypad integration for modern keyboard layouts.

As an example, we use the U.S. English QWERTY keyboard to correspond to COSMAC VIP keys below:

U.S. English QWERTY:

1 2 3 4
Q W E R
A S D F
Z X C V

COSMAC VIP keypad:

1 2 3 C
4 5 6 D
7 8 9 E
A 0 B F

Things left to be done

• Beeping when sound timer is above 0, although I'm not a huge fan of that feature.
• Configurations for other implementation features, e.g. the functioning of instructions like 8XY6

Awesome people and resources

Everybody in the emudev discord server, r/EmuDev, and Tobias' lovely blog.