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Revision as of 23:56, 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 ✗ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
chip8swemu Windows Linux git ✗ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
DSP Windows Linux macOS git ✗ Mid ✓ ✓ ?
JAXE Windows Linux [N 1] git
libretro core 		✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ?
Vision-8 Windows MS-DOS UNIX 1.0 ✗ Mid NC ✗ ?
CowChip Windows 9x
Windows 3.1 		0.2 ✗ Low-Mid ? ✗ ?
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 		✗ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
Cadmium Web Website
git 		✗ Cycle ✓ ✓ ✓
Silicon8 Web Website
git 		✗ High ✓ ✗ ✓
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
ROM 		✗ High[N 3] ✓ ✗ ?
Chip8-NX Switch git ✗ Mid ✓ ✗ ~
Chip8 Emulator PlayStation 4 POC ✗ Low ? ✗ ~
CHIP8 PlayStation 3
PlayStation 2 		v1 ✗ Mid ? ✗ ?
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 ✗ Mid 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 ✗ Mid 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 ✗ High-Mid ✓ ✗ ?
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.
  • chip8swemu Simple GUI with, easy to navigate.
  • CowChip Sensitive to illegal function calls and crashes due to them.

Mobile / ARM
Web browsers

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

Consoles

  • NES-CHIP-8 has limited controls.

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
  3. ↑ most accuracy tests show that it is accurate, due to the NES controller having less inputs selection in other tests can't be done
Notes
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