emuChip is cross-platform CHIP-8 and Super CHIP emulator.
Source code: https://github.com/btimofeev/emuchip
- Open a terminal and browse into the extracted folder.
mkdir build && cd build
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cmake ..
to configure Qt and SDL versions, orcmake -D BUILD_QT=NO ..
to disable QT versioncmake -D BUILD_SDL=NO ..
to disable SDL version
make
The original keypad that came with the CHIP-8 computers looked like this:
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|1|2|3|C|
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|4|5|6|D|
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|7|8|9|E|
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|A|0|B|F|
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This is emulated as follows:
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|1|2|3|4|
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|Q|W|E|R|
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|A|S|D|F|
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|Z|X|C|V|
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