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* '''Cadium''' The GUI is hard to navigate to a new user but has many emulation options, supports the most CHIP-8 extensions out of any interpreter see list [https://github.com/gulrak/cadmium#supported-chip-8-variants here]. Also great debugger.
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<font size="3"><b>Consoles</b></font><br>
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<font size="3"><b>Calculators</b></font><br>
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* '''Chip-84 Rainmeter Edition''' is blurry when set to a resolution higher than the original CHIP-8 due to Rainmeter not supporting nearest neighbor pixel interpolation
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
 
* [[Fantasy console emulators]]
 
* [[Fantasy console emulators]]

Revision as of 09:13, 20 April 2024

CHIP-8
PONG CHIP8.png
Screenshot of Pong implemented in CHIP-8
Developer Joseph Weisbecker
Type Interpreted programming language
Release date 1976[1] (original)
Emulated ✓
WIP Note: needs accuracy testing and checking for licensing
For emulators for computers dedicated to running CHIP-8, see List of computers.
Note: The terms 'emulator', 'interpreter' and 'simulator' are used interchangeably by developers of interpreters of CHIP-8.

CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker.

Most CHIP-8 interpreters are Homebrew emulators for their system, devices with official/marketed with CHIP-8 support include: the DREAM 6800, COSMAC VIP, Telmac 1800 and ETI-660.

Extensions to CHIP-8 have existed since the 1970s, With some conflicting with each-other.[2][3] Most extensions have limited support outside of the interpreter they were made for. The most supported extensions are S-CHIP and XO-CHIP.

For information on CHIP-8 extensions see: CHIP-8 extensions and compatibility by the CHIP-8 Research Facility

Interpreters

Name Platform(s) Latest Version Libretro Core Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
Cadmium Windows Linux macOS 1.1.8 ✗ High ✓ ✓ ✓
chip8swemu Windows Linux git ✗ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
DSP Windows Linux macOS git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ?
JAXE Windows Linux [N 1] git
libretro core 		✓ ? ✓ ✓ ?
Vision-8 Windows MS-DOS UNIX 1.0 ✗ ? NC ✗ ?
CowChip Windows 9x
Windows 3.1 		0.2 ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
OmniChip-8 Windows Linux git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ?
Pin8 Haiku git ✗ ? NC ✗ ?
CHIP-8 Emulator KolibriOS git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
CHIP-8 ZealOS git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
Mobile / ARM
ChipChip Android 1.8.0 ✗ Mid ✗ ✓ ✓
Chip8 Java Android ? ✗ Low ✗ ✗ ~
iPhone-Chip-8-Emulator iOS git ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ~
PalmChip8 PalmOS 1.0 ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
DALE-8 KaiOS git ✗ ? ✓[N 2] ✗ ?
Pico-CHIP8 Linux ARM git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
MeltChip BlackBerry PlayBook git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
Web browsers
Octo Web Website
git 		✗ High ✓ ✓ ✓
Cadmium Web Website
git 		✗ High ✓ ✓ ✓
Silicon8 Web Website
git 		✗ ? ✓ ✗ ✓
Chip8.js Web Website
git 		✗ ? ✓ ✗ ✓
Flip8 Redux Web NewGrounds ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Consoles
CHIP Emulator Xbox One 1 ✗ Mid ? ✗ ✓
Chip8x Xbox v5 ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
CHIP8 Emulator Wii U 2.2 ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ✓
Chippy Wii 1.0 ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ✓
Chip 8 Emulator GameCube 1.0a ✗ ? ? ✗ ✓
Chip8-n64 Nintendo 64 git ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ✓
PsChip8 PlayStation git ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ✓
Super-Chip8x Super Nintendo git ✗ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
CHIP8 TO SMD Genesis 2.0 ✗ Mid ✗ ✗ ✓
NES-CHIP-8 NES git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
Chip8-NX Switch git ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ~
Chip8 Emulator PlayStation 4 POC ✗ Low ? ✗ ~
CHIP8 PlayStation 3
PlayStation 2 		v1 ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Chip8-3DO 3DO git ✗ Low-Mid ✓ ✗ ~
Whack-a-Mole Dreamcast 0.900 ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
CrabEmu Dreamcast 0.2.0 ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
CHIP-8 emulator Saturn ? ✗ ? ? ✗ !
chipce8 PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ !
CHIP-F8 Channel F git ✗ ? ? ✗ ✗
Handhelds
Chip8me Nintendo DS 1.0 ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✓
DrChip 8 GameBoy Advance 09/20/02 ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ✓
Chip-3DS Nintendo 3DS 1.0 ✗ Mid ? ✗ ~
GB-8 Game Boy git ✗ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
Vision-8 for Gameboy Game Boy 1.0 ✗ ? NC ✗ ?
OmniChip-8 Game Boy git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ?
PSPChip8 PSP 1.0 ✗ Low ✗ ✗ ~
Chip8 Emulator PSP 1.0 Beta ✗ Low ✗ ✗ ✗
DreamChip PSP V4 ✗ Low ✗ ✗ ✗
Chips1 WonderSwan git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ?
Chip8Pd Playdate git ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
C8 GP32 0.2 ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Chip8 Atari Lynx ? ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Chip-8-Pokitto Pokitto git ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
CHIP-8 mini Pokemon Mini git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
Calculators
Chip8Emu TI-Nspire 1.2.2 ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ✓
Schip8fx Casio AFX
Fx-9860 		1.11.0 ✗ Mid ? ✗ ✓
C8SALT TI-84 series git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ✓
Chip-84 TI84+CE git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
Chip84CE TI84+CE git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
Chip8-TI68k TI-68k git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ?
Vinegar TI-83
TI-83 Plus 		1.1 ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
Microcontrollers
8boy Arduino git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
ESPboy CHIP8 ESPboy git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ?
ESP32TinyChip8 ESP32 git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ?
Chip-8 STM32 STM32 git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ?
chip8-stm32 STM32 git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
TIVA8 TM4C123 git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
ByteBoy MSP430 git ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Firmware
CHIP-8 UEFI UEFI git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
GPCHIP Miyoo 0.0.1 ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ✓
PluginChip8 RockBox ? ✗ ? ✓ ? ✓
Home computers
Chip-8 Atari 8-bit git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ?
Chip09 Tandy CoCo 2
Dragon 32/64 		git ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Vision-8 AmigaOS
ColecoVision
Coleco ADAM
 1.0 ✗ ? NC ✗ ?
CHIP-OTTO ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum Next
Cambridge Z88 		? ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ?
Chip8 AmigaOS ? ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
C64 Chip-8 Commodore 64 git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
OmniChip-8 Commodore 64 git ✗ ? ✓ ✓ ?
Chip-8 Emulator Commodore 64 ? ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ?
Vic-20 Chip-8 Emulator VIC-20 1.11 ✗ ? ✗ ✗ ?
CHIP-8 Simulator BBC/Master BBC Micro
BBC Master 		? ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Chip-8 RiscOS 26-Jan-98 ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Fantasy computers
minimicro-chip8 MiniMicro git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
CHIP-8 Emulator PICO-8 1.5 ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
CHIP-80 TIC-80 ? ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Text editor
chip-8.nvim NeoVim git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
chip8.el Emacs git ✗ ? ✓ ? ?
Game Engine
CHIP8-GM GameMaker git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
E2-CHIP-8-interpreter Garry's Mod git ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Chip8Unity Unity git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
Chip8Interpreter4Unity Unity git ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Megazeux CHIP-8 Emulator Megazeux ? ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
Other
chip8 Sharp PC-1350
PC-1360
PC-2500 		git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
Chip-84 Rainmeter Edition Rainmeter git ✗ ? ? ✗ ?
flipper-chip Flipper Zero git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
CHIP-8 console on FPGA TinyFPGA BX git ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ?
chip8swemu Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros git ✗ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓

Extension support

Interpreter CHIP-8 S-CHIP XO-CHIP Other
Cadium ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓[4]
chip8swemu ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
DSP ✓ ✓[5] ✗ ✗
JAXE ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓[6]
Vision-8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CowChip ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
OmniChip-8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Pin8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP-8 emulator (KolibriOS) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP-8 (ZealOS) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
ChipChip ✓ ✓ ? ✓[7]
iPhone-Chip-8-Emulator ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
PalmChip8 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
DALE-8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Pico-CHIP8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
MeltChip ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Octo ✓ ✓ ✓ ?
Silicon8 ✓ ~ ~ ✗
Chip8.js ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Flip8 Redux ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
CHIP Emulator (Xbox one) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8x ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
CHIP8 Emulator (Wii U) ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Chippy ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Chip 8 Emulator (GameCube) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8-n64 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
PsChip8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Super-Chip8x ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP8 TO SMD ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
NES-CHIP-8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8-NX ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip-8 emulator (PS4) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8 (PS2/PS3) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8-3DO ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Whack-a-Mole ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CrabEmu ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP-8 emulator (DreamCast) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
chipce8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP-F8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8me ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
DrChip 8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip-3DS ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
GB-8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
pspchip8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8 Emulator (PSP) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
DreamChip ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chips1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗
Chip8Pd ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
C8 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Chip8 (Lynx) ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Chip-8-Pokitto ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP-8 mini ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8Emu ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Schip8fx ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
C8SALT ✓ ~ ✗ ✗
Chip-84 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Chip84CE ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8-TI68k ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Vinegar ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
8boy ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
ESPboy CHIP8 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
ESP32TinyChip8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip-8 STM32 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓[8]
CHIP 8 emulator (STM32) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
TIVA8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
ByteBoy ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP-8 UEFI ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
GPCHIP ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
PluginChip8 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Chip-8 (Atari 8-bit) ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
Chip09 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP-OTTO ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8 (Amiga) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
C64 Chip-8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip-8 Emulator (Commodore 64) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Vic-20 Chip-8 Emulator ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP-8 Simulator BBC/Master ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip-8 (RISC OS) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
minimicro-chip8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP-8 Emulator (PICO-8) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
CHIP-80 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
chip-8.nvim ✓ ~ ~ ✗
chip8.el ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
CHIP8-GM ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
E2-CHIP-8-interpreter ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8Unity ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip8Interpreter4Unity ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Megazeux CHIP-8 Emulator ✓ ~ ✗ ✗
chip8 (PC-1350/PC-1360/PC-2500) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
Chip-84 Rainmeter Edition ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗
flipper-chip ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗
fpga-chip8 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗

Comparisons

PC / x86

  • Cadium The GUI is hard to navigate to a new user but has many emulation options, supports the most CHIP-8 extensions out of any interpreter see list here. Also great debugger.

Mobile / ARM

  • Octo IDE and interpreter, allows for sprite, audio and supports multiple multiple extensions and custom compatibility options and compatibility profile for specific extensions.

Web browsers
Consoles
Handhelds
Calculators
Microcontrollers
Firmware
Home computers
Fantasy computers
Text editor
Game Engine
Other

  • flipper-chip does not support any controls/input[9]
  • Chip-84 Rainmeter Edition is blurry when set to a resolution higher than the original CHIP-8 due to Rainmeter not supporting nearest neighbor pixel interpolation

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ Joseph Weisbecker - Wikipedia
  2. ↑ https://chip-8.github.io/extensions/
  3. ↑ https://github.com/trapexit/chip-8_documentation
  4. ↑ Cadium supported CHIP-8 variants - Cadium Github
  5. ↑ dsp-emulator/src/misc/init_games.pas - DSP GitHub
  6. ↑ JAXE Features - JAXE GitHub
  7. ↑ ChipChip description - Google Play
  8. ↑ CHIP-8 STM32 README
  9. ↑ Flipper-chip issue #1
Notes
  1. ↑ Only available outside of Windows and Linux as a libretro core (e.g., RetroArch).
  2. ↑ DALE-8 is public domain
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