floooh/chips
8-bit chip and system emulators in standalone C headers observed · 2026-10-14
Health v2 · maintenance only
75/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3261
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 24
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1289 stars · 95 forks observed · 2026-10-14
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A toolbox of 8-bit chip and complete system emulators written as dependency-free C99 header files. Chip emulators communicate via a pin bit-mask tick interface so whole computers can be emulated by wiring chips together like on a breadboard.
Use cases
- emulate 8-bit CPUs and support chips in my own project
- build a complete retro computer emulator from individual chip emulators
- embed a lightweight emulator in a game or app via C headers
- compile emulators to WebAssembly to run in the browser
- understand how 8-bit hardware works by simulating chips at the pin level
When to choose
- you need dependency-free, embeddable C emulator code
- you want cycle-level chip emulation with a clean pin-based API
- you target multiple compilers and platforms including WASM
When to avoid
- you need high-level turnkey emulators with UI and ROM management
- you emulate modern 16/32/64-bit systems
- you prefer emulator frameworks with plugin ecosystems
Facets
library · maturity active
simulation embedded simulation hardware gaming-tools developer-tools cross-platform wasm cpp emulation 8-bit retro-computing single-header c99 cpu-emulator chip-emulator zlib-license
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/floooh/chips · fetched 2026-10-14 · 04a2a96ab406
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| floooh/chips | main | 75 |
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