My attempt to learn Rust doing something fun. Surely not idiomatic Rust yet and probably a little dirty right now but, certainly serving its purpose of learning Rust. Also has the added benefit of being exposed to dealing with registers, bitwise ops, and some assembly-ish instructions.
CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine. It was made to allow video games to be more easily programmed for these computers.
Source: Wikipedia.
Specifications: Cowgod's Chip-8 Technicl Reference
- key press events
- track down collision bug.
- fix font set opcode
- sounds
- move opcode instructions to functions in separate file
- clean up debug print statements
- general cleanup / refactor messy bits
- install rust stable
- in the terminal:
brew install sdl2 - clone repo
- cd into root directory
- in the terminal:
cargo run <path to rom>- (ex:
cargo run ./roms/chip8_picture.ch8)
- (ex:
- press
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