Chip8 Emulator with Rust, WASM & Vue.js

About

A very basic Chip8 Emulator written in Rust. The emulator is embedded in a webpage with Web Assembly (WASM). The webpage is built with Vue.js.

🚴 Usage

Rust & Webassembly

Install wasm-pack from https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-pack/installer/

Install dependencies:

cargo build

Compile code and generate WASM code

wasm-pack build

Test Rust code:

cargo build

Vue.js

From web/

yarn install
yarn serve

🔬 Test in Headless Browsers with wasm-pack test

wasm-pack test --headless --firefox

🎁 Publish to NPM with wasm-pack publish

wasm-pack publish

Inspiration & references

http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-write-an-emulator-chip-8-interpreter/

https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/wasm-rust-chip8/blob/master/src/cpu.rs

http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM

http://emulator101.com/chip-8-instruction-set.html

https://github.com/learnopengles/chip8-rust

https://github.com/trapexit/chip-8_documentation

https://rustwasm.github.io/book/

https://github.com/dmatlack/chip8/tree/master/roms

Fonts

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/VT323?category=Monospace https://www.fontspace.com/category/terminal

Todo

• Add global scss styles
• Move all chip8 dependencies to store
• Style drag & drop for ROMs