Sharing a quick fun diversion that I coded on PineTime within a day... PineTime now runs CHIP-8 retro games! Here are the videos...

https://youtu.be/Bj9-vjEBBAk

https://youtu.be/rP0ZQ0bL8H8

More info about CHIP-8...

http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-write-an-emulator-chip-8-interpreter/

Whole lot of games available here...

https://github.com/dmatlack/chip8/tree/master/roms

I used an existing CHIP-8 Emulator for Rust...

https://github.com/YushiOMOTE/libchip8

The code I actually wrote is surprisingly little... (What took so long to get it right? Tracking down which Rust function was taking too much stack space)

https://github.com/lupyuen/pinetime-rust-mynewt/blob/chip8/rust/app/src/chip8.rs

Thinking of using the accelerometer to control the game... tilt your watch up / down / left / right to control the player.... will this be playable? Hmmm...

I have some ideas how to optimise the rendering (e.g. batching of pixels into blocks). But this has been a really rewarding exercise on PineTime... All it takes is a few lines of Rust code to run games on PineTime! :-)

How about we take some retro games and turn them into PineTime Watch Faces?