{"id":248,"date":"2022-10-27T20:48:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:03:49","slug":"super-chip8-emulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Super Chip Emulator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not quite sure what Chip-8 even is? Don’t worry, there’s quite a nice description at https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CHIP-8<\/a> which should tell you more than you ever wanted to know.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This is my attempt at writing a Chip-8 \/ SuperChip emulator in C. I think every programmer should at least attempt to create a Chip8 emulator as it serves as the perfect introduction to how computers work at a low level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should be fairly easy to convert the emulator code itself to a different platform as the only thing that’s platform specific is the Windows File browser and some optional Windows console code but that should be easy to remove or replace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can download both the code and executable from my GitHub page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/github.com\/LesFarrell\/Chip8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Emulator is using the cross platform Tigr Graphics Library https:\/\/github.com\/erkkah\/tigr<\/a> to handle the Window creation and process key-presses. It’s single C file which makes it very easy to use and debug and it’s perfect if you just want to get something on screen quickly! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s no sound emulated at the moment but given the limited sound of the Chip-8 it’s not really a problem and it’s probably something I’ll address in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Commands<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the normal CHIP8 movement keys of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Q<\/strong><\/td>\nW<\/strong><\/td>\nE<\/strong><\/td>\nR<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A<\/strong><\/td>\nS<\/strong><\/td>\nD<\/strong><\/td>\nF<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Z<\/strong><\/td>\nX<\/strong><\/td>\nC<\/strong><\/td>\nV<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody><\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
You can also use the following keys:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

O <\/strong>– Open a new ROM image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L<\/strong> – Reload the current ROM Image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve tried the emulator with quite a few games and most seem to work without problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not quite sure what Chip-8 even is? Don’t worry, there’s quite a nice description at https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CHIP-8 which should tell you more than you ever wanted to know. This is my attempt at writing a Chip-8 \/ SuperChip emulator in C. I think every programmer should at least attempt to create a Chip8 emulator as it… Read More »Super Chip Emulator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesfarrell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}