Chippy-8

A fast Chip 8 Emulator written in C.

Building

1. Install the dependencies

• Ubuntu/Debian:

NOTICE: As of writing, neither Ubuntu nor Debian provide SDL3 packages. Please use the v1.0 tag, which relies on SDL2 instead.

• Fedora

$ sudo dnf install make gcc SDL3-devel git

• Arch

$ sudo pacman -S base-devel sdl3 git

2. Clone the repo and cd into it:

$ git clone https://github.com/Lu-Die-Milchkuh/Chippy-8.git && cd Chippy-8

3. Compilation

$ make

Then execute it like the following:

$ ./Chippy-8 <path_to_rom>

Controls

The Original Chip-8 has the following Keyboard Layout:

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

which are mapped like the following on your keyboard

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

Screenshots