CHIP-8 Emulator

This is my initial dive into Rust and emulator development and represents an implementation of the popular CHIP-8 interpreter, commonly used as a beginner
guide into emulator development because of it's relative simplicity.

The current implementation covers the initial specification of the CHIP-8 (34 opcodes excluding the 0NNN opcode) that can be found here: CHIP-8 Instruction Set

Screenshots

CHIP-8 Test Suite	PONG2

Building

cargo build

Running

cargo run <rom_path>

Key bindings

   Keyboard           =>          CHIP-8 

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |     |      | 1 | 2 | 3 | C |  
| Q | W | E | R |     |      | 4 | 5 | 6 | D |   
| A | S | D | F |     |      | 7 | 8 | 9 | E |  
| Z | X | C | V |     |      | A | 0 | B | F |   
             

Shortcuts

Key	Action
Escape	Quit emulator
Ctrl + Backspace	Reset emulator
P	Pause emulator

Testing the emulator

Timendus's CHIP-8 Test Suite: https://github.com/Timendus/chip8-test-suite.

Highly recommended for testing the opcode implementation and different quirks.

Future improvements

• Add support for SUPER-CHIP 8
• Add more quirk implementations
• Dialog based ROM selection