- Familiarize myself with the core facets of Rust and get a feel for language semantics and software design in Rust.
- Have a program that may serve as a template to return to for test driving libraries and running quick turnaround experiments.
- Aside from the CHIP-8 spec—make as few assumptions about the system the interpreter will run on—keeping the CHIP-8 VM (
Chip8) as compact as possible to be able to port to embedded environments. This means that frontend components should be fully decoupled and libraries used to backChip8itself, if any, should beno_stdcapable. - To some extent, convey an emulator's system model. This project will be tailored to CHIP-8, but one should be able to draw inpsiration from portions of this project in their own emulators, perhaps for a guest system with a different ISA!
- CHIP-8 Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8
- mattmikolay's CHIP-8 Technical Reference: https://github.com/mattmikolay/chip-8/wiki/CHIP%E2%80%908-Technical-Reference
- Cowgod's CHIP-8 Technical Reference: http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM
- Timendus' CHIP-8 Test Suite: https://github.com/Timendus/chip8-test-suite
A collection of compatible ROMs may be found on Zophar's Domain and John Earnest's CHIP-8 community archive.