btimofeev / emuchip

Cross-platform CHIP-8 and Super CHIP emulator.

Description

emuChip is cross-platform CHIP-8 and Super CHIP emulator.

Source code: https://github.com/btimofeev/emuchip

Compilation

1. Open a terminal and browse into the extracted folder.
2. mkdir build && cd build
3. • cmake .. to configure Qt and SDL versions, or
   • cmake -D BUILD_QT=NO .. to disable QT version
   • cmake -D BUILD_SDL=NO .. to disable SDL version
4. make

Key mappings

The original keypad that came with the CHIP-8 computers looked like this:

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

This is emulated as follows:

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