This is awesome work, and also a truly great writeup! I particularly enjoyed the outline of iterations to improve performance. Thank you very much for putting this together!<p>Emacs in general has great potential as a truly general programmable environment, and this is an amazing illustration of these abilities.
CHIP-8 brings back memories.<p>There's a pile of COSMAC-VIP magazines somewhere in my parents' basement. Writing an emulator and typing them in seems like it would be a fun project.
Wow, that was an excellent post. I love that they ended up contributing back to a couple projects as they found bugs or lack of functionality with them.