chip-8-emu

Rust implementation of Chip-8 emulator/interpreter using SDL2 (OpenGL)

Usage

Run the emulator with a rom by passing its <rom-path> as argument:

chip-8-emu.exe <rom-path>

For the help info run the following command:

chip-8-emu.exe --help

Build locally

To build the project locally, it is required to have rust toolchain (i.e. rustc compiler and cargo). Then it is required to install vcpkg through cargo-vcpkg tool in order to build sdl2.

Requirements

• rustc compiler
• cargo

Steps

• Install cargo-vcpkg

cargo install cargo-vcpkg

• Build sdl2 via cargo-vcpkg

cargo vcpkg build

• Build the project

cargo build

• This will generate the executable in the folder target/debug