Space Invaders Emulator in C++

This is my attempt at an emulator for the classic arcade game Space Invaders.

Dependencies

• Google test for unit test build
  • apt-get install -y libgtest-dev
• SDL 2.0
  • apt-get install -y apt-get install -y libsdl2-dev
• CMake

Build Instructions

Available Targets

All built executables are put into the bin directory in the root of the project.

• all - this is the default of the generated make file (builds all following targets)
• invaders - the game
• disassembler - utility to disassemble the invaders ROM file
• unittests - build the GTEST unit test executable

Windows

Tested Windows 10 using the following:

• MinGW 64 compiler suite
• GIT Bash

1. Clone this repository git clone git@github.com:malloc2048/goinvaders.git
2. Open a terminal in the root directory of the project
3. Create a build directory mkdir build
4. Change to build directory cd build
5. Run CMake cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -G "CodeBlocks - MinGW Makefiles" ..
6. Run Make mingw32-make

Linux

Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 using the following:

• GCC
• CMake

1. Clone this repository git clone git@github.com:malloc2048/goinvaders.git
2. Open a terminal in the root directory of the project
3. Create a build directory mkdir build
4. Change to build directory cd build
5. Run CMake cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
6. Run Make make