YAC8E - Yet Another Chip-8 Emulator

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About

Yet another Chip-8 emulator.

Created as a C programming exercise using the bare minimal of libraries (no SDL, only ncurses and pthreads). Don't judge...

For extra flair, use with cool-retro-terminal (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term)

Tested only on Linux... probably will not build on Windows because of pthreads

How to run

Compile using gcc by running make.
Run the executable yac8e <rom_filename> with a chosen ROM.

Example:

./yac8e roms/UFO

Optional debug flag

./yac8e -d <rom_file> for debug mode.

TO-DOs

Cleanup code; split gigantic file...
Solve the multithreading blocking issue when multiple keystrokes are given at once
Find a more elegant solution for the clock rate, possibly give the use the chance to change clock rate mid-game
Game selection menu
Reset game command
Try to break my own game... I'm sure there are overflows and use-after-free's everywhere ;)