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24 alternatives to Terminal based CHIP-8 Emulator without external libraries in C++

A Terminal Based Chip-8 Emulator. Contribute to LakshyAAAgrawal/chip8emu development by creating an account on GitHub.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Terminal based CHIP-8 Emulator without external libraries in C++ launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Chip-8 emulator written in JavaScript▲35
A Chip8 emulator written in JavaScript. Contribute to victorqribeiro/Chip8js development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
2
I built a handheld CHIP-8 game console to teach myself embedded systems▲128
A while back I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator (which is considered the Hello, World! of emulators and is more accurately a virtual machine since historically CHIP-8 was an interpreted language running on top of the COSMAC VIP to make game programming easier). But a few months ago I got really interested in embedded software, so decided it would be neat to port my emulator to a STM32 MCU and design a console around it as a learning experience, since CHIP-8 never existed as a physical system. I didn't know much about embedded software when I began, and even less about electronics, but I managed to…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
3
My x86 emulator written in JavaScript▲765
Run KolibriOS, Linux or Windows 98 in your browser
2013 · copy.sh · its alternatives →
4
CHIP-8 console implemented in FPGA▲120
CHIP-8 console on FPGA. Contribute to pwmarcz/fpga-chip8 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
5
A 3D Chip8 emulator▲5
A (classic) chip8 emulator. Contribute to Rydgel/chip8 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
6
Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator▲192
If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based. - kovidgoyal/kitty
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
7
A terminal emulator in pure PHP▲196
A terminal renderer written in pure PHP. Contribute to soloterm/screen development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
8
A cross-platform terminal emulator written in Java▲65
It's based on the jediterm library developed for IDEs, but it can also be put to work as a standalone terminal emulator with tabs. The library has been around for more than 10 years, but I don't think anyone made a terminal emulator app from it?
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
9
iC8, an interpreted Chip-8 emulator in C▲11
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chip-8 Emulator in Python3▲5
CHIP-8 emulator written in python3. Contribute to shivanju/chip8-python3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
11
2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal▲135
🎮 Fully featured terminal version of the game "2048" written in C++ - plibither8/2048.cpp
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
Avremu – An 8-Bit Microcontroller in Pure LaTeX▲122
GitLab Community Edition
2014 · gitlab.brokenpipe.de · its alternatives →
13
Translating CHIP-8 binaries to Posix C▲8
Contribute to kiryk/chip8c development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours▲173
A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name. Contribute to pg83/shitty development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made an easy-to-understand 6502 emulator in pure C▲88
Yet another 6502 emulator that one day dreams of being an Atari 2600. - haldean/x6502
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
16
Tabby▲103
A terminal for a more modern age
2019 · tabby.sh · its alternatives →
17
Chip-8 interpreter with a fancy GUI made using C++ and Dear ImGui▲5
Yet another Chip-8 interpreter, but this time with a beautiful interface 💻 - gargakshit/chip-8
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
18
My microkernel-based OS built from scratch now has basic Unix commands▲69
This project contains no code from Linux, BSD, Minix, or any other OS. Everything up until this point is written entirely from scratch, including a pure microkernel (that only implements multiprocessor priority scheduling, memory management, and interprocess communication), a work-in-progress implementation of the standard C library, and a variety of servers that provide drivers and other essential OS functionality. At the time of writing this post, the servers provide drivers for the keyboard, NVMe SSDs (that works on real hardware), a Unix-like virtual file system (with a single root…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
19
A game engine for the terminal in Go▲109
Terminal-based game engine for Go, built on top of Termbox - JoelOtter/termloop
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
20
A Golang CP/M emulator▲107
Z80-based CP/M emulator, in golang. Happily runs Zork, Microsoft BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Wordstar, etc. - skx/cpmulator
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple GUI Notepad using C++ natively made in my high school in 2015▲87
A GUI Notepad completely made from scratch using C++ native library and Graphics library coupled with mouse events as part my 12th Grade Project in 2015 - vibhoothi/CNotepad
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Chip-8 disassembler in Python▲30
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Atmel AVR 8-bit Emulator in Rust and React▲41
2015 · realscout.github.io · its alternatives →
24
eGranary Pocket Library▲60
A library on a chip: knowledge for those w/o internet access
2015 · indiegogo.com · its alternatives →

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