ChipAte

A rusty Chip-8 emulator that ate (but left a lot of crumbs).

Roadmap

• Chip-8 CPU
• Chip-8 Keypad
• Chip-8 Sound
• Chip-8 Display
• CLI arguments for configuration
• Load ROM while running
• Save/Load state
• Overlay (Show FPS, Speed Change, etc.)
• Better logging
• Super Chip support

Keybinds

Functions

• Esc - Quit
• F3 - Reset
• F4 - Load ROM (Coming Soon)
• F5 - Toggle UI (Coming Soon)
• F8 - Pause
• F12 - Debug mode
• -/_ - Speed down 1 (-60Hz)
• +/= - Speed up 1 (+60Hz)

Keypad

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

(Keyboard)

corresponds to

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

(Chip-8 Keypad)

Build

Dependencies

• Rust & Cargo
• SDL2

Build Instructions

cargo build --release # Build
./target/release/chipate # Run