chip-8
A collection of CHIP-8 programs and documentation (by mattmikolay)
chip8-ce
CHIP-8 Emulator written in (e)z80 assembly and C for the TI-84+ CE (by mnurzia)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
chip-8
Posts with mentions or reviews of chip-8.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-04.
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Cowgod's Chip-8 Technical Reference
For anyone looking to write a CHIP-8 emulator, Matt Mikolay's writeup is less ambiguous:
https://github.com/mattmikolay/chip-8/wiki/CHIP%E2%80%908-Te...
If you want to target the original Cosmac VIP behavior, corax89's test ROM is good:
https://github.com/corax89/chip8-test-rom
chip8-ce
Posts with mentions or reviews of chip8-ce.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-04.
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Cowgod's Chip-8 Technical Reference
I used this reference to write a CHIP-8 emulator in Z80 assembly a couple years back: https://github.com/mnurzia/chip8-ce
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chip-8 and chip8-ce you can also consider the following projects:
chip8-test-rom - ROM for testing chip8 emulator
chip8-test-suite - A collection of ROM images with tests that will aid you in developing your own CHIP-8, SUPER-CHIP or XO-CHIP interpreter (or "emulator")
chip-8 - A Chip-8 emulator written in Kotlin
viper - Scans of the VIPER newsletter
emu8 - Naive Chip-8 interpreter written in Python