zig-chip8

Cross platform chip8 emulator, built using zig and raylib

Architecture

The emulation logic is executed on the rendering thread, while audio samples are being played using an audio callback. The emulator will emit audio samples to a dedicated ring buffer, which the audio thread will consume in the background.

Try it out using nix

nix run github:jla2000/zig-chip8

Build locally

Native build

zig build run 

Cross compile to windows

zig build -Dwindows

Todo's

• Implement keyboard handling
• Implement super chip 8 extension
• Implement xochip extension