chip-8
A collection of CHIP-8 programs and documentation (by mattmikolay)
viper
Scans of the VIPER newsletter (by mattmikolay)
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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
viper
Posts with mentions or reviews of viper.
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
The VIPER newsletter for RCA VIP owners has quite a bit of the early CHIP-8 lore: https://github.com/mattmikolay/viper/ -- I wrote the "CHIP-8 Assember in BASIC" in Volume 6 issue 1.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing chip-8 and viper 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")
emu8 - Naive Chip-8 interpreter written in Python
chip-8 - A Chip-8 emulator written in Kotlin
chip8-ce - CHIP-8 Emulator written in (e)z80 assembly and C for the TI-84+ CE