Chip-8 Emulator

About

Blog post: https://chrsbell.github.io/2020/11/designing-a-chip8-emulator-in-python/

A Chip-8 Emulator I made using Python. Resources I used:

• Cowgod's Chip-8 Techincal Reference
• Wikipedia

Features

• OpenGL 3.3
• Window based with GUI
• Basic ROM support
• Remappable keyboard input
• Sound
• Support for loading/saving states

Dependencies

The emulator should run on any system with the following dependencies:

Python 3

sudo apt install python3

PyOpenGL

pip3 install PyOpenGL

Tkinter

sudo apt install python3-tk

pyopengltk

pip3 install pyopengltk

NumPy

pip3 install numpy

SciPy

pip3 install scipy

simpleaudio

pip3 install simpleaudio