CHIP-8 emulator

Project Notes

ignore setup.zig it was used to pull some dependencies that I'm leaving checked into the repo for now at least.
Vulkan is setup incase I want it later and is working, but it is currently only used to print the major and minor version of Vulkan that is being used

4,096 bytes of RAM
0x000 (0) - 0xFFF (4095)
the first 512 bytes are reserved for the interpreter and should not be used by the program
user programs start at 0x200 (512) and end at 0xFFF (4095)
don't use the VF register it is used as a flag
the program counter is a 16 bit register that holds the address of the current instruction
display is 64x32 pixels in monochrome
sprite size is up to 15 bytes
36 total instructions
ROMS for testing
BC_test rom
test_opcode
Chip-8 Technical Ref

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 9 Commits
.vscode		.vscode
src		src
zig-cache/h		zig-cache/h
zig-out/bin		zig-out/bin
.gitignore		.gitignore
README.md		README.md
build.zig		build.zig
build.zig.zon		build.zig.zon
c.h		c.h
setup.zig		setup.zig
vk.xml		vk.xml