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Ferrous

Ferrous is a (super) Chip-8 interpreter written in Rust.

   

Installation

Ferrous requires that you have the latest stable Rust compiler, and also have GTK and ALSA development libraries installed on Linux systems.

After ensuring the above, clone the repository and run cargo build --release. The binary will be created in the directory ./target/release. You can then copy the binary to any location of your choosing.

Note: There are prebuilt binaries available for Windows and Linux platforms in the releases section.

Usage

Execute Ferrous' binary, and you will be up and running.

./ferrous-native

Features

Ferrous is certainly not perfect, but it supports the following features:

  • Tweak the behaviour of some ambiguous instructions for maximum compatibility.
  • Accurate Chip-8 and Super Chip-8 emulation (interpretation?)
  • Rich native frontend with support for debugging and more.
  • Extremely simple and easy to understand core logic implementation.

Resources

Documentation and References

  1. CowGod's Chip-8 Technical Reference (doesn't work with HTTPS)
  2. mattmikolay's Chip-8 Reference
  3. Super Chip-8 Specification

Blogs and Talks

  1. Tobias V. Langhoff's Blog Post

License

Ferrous is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.