YACE: Yet Another Chip8 Emulator

Components

• QChip8: Executable for the emulator using Qt.
• CChip8: Core chip8 emulator for calculation only. Provided as a dynamic library.
• CPUTests: Tests for CChip8 using QtTest.

Building & Installing

Works under Qt6.

$ git clone https://github.com/xiaoyu2006/YACE.git
$ cd YACE
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..

To build

$ make

To test

$ make test

Gameplay

ROMs

Visit https://github.com/dmatlack/chip8/tree/master/roms to get some ROMs. Not every ROM is tested.

Keys

QChip8 maps the following keys for KeyIndex 0 to 15 in CChip8.

1234
qwer
asdf
zxcv

TODOs

• Add sound
• Better error handling.
• Document for CChip8
• C++-ify