jcmoyer / ultim8

The ultim8 chip 8 emulator and assembler

ultim8

A highly configurable chip-8 emulator and assembler.

Dependencies

• SDL2
• gl3w
• imgui
• fmt
• catch2
• toml11

Currently, these libraries are vendored for convenience and reproducibility.

Building

Windows

For Visual Studio you can simply clone the repository, open the directory as a cmake project, and build.

Linux and similar environments

Requires a C++ compiler, GNU make, git, and cmake.

git clone https://github.com/jcmoyer/ultim8.git
mkdir ultim8-build && cd ultim8-build
cmake ../ultim8
make

Things that still need to be implemented

• Compatibility settings for older roms
• Some superchip and XO extensions are still missing, but a lot of games work
• Numeric range checking, negative integer literals for assembler

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

See LICENSE.txt for more information.