I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language
pizza_man
61 points
14 comments
April 19, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
azhenley
I wish there was a writeup about the emulator. I did find the documentation for the language: https://spectre-docs.pages.dev Over 900 commits and 400k loc to Spectre in less than 3 weeks has me thinking this is all AI.
oncallthrow
A GitHub README.md without a torrent of AI-generated slop? Refreshing
JKCalhoun
Need to write your language in the emulator—build your emulator from the language emulated in your emulator…
gnabgib
What was wrong with your @death_eternal account? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826806