The Commodore CHESSmate chess computer might not be terribly well known, but that doesn’t make it any less worthy of being reproduced. If anything it is more important, as it gives more people an opportunity to use one of these devices, yet beyond a purely emulated experience the real user interface is harder to experience.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/03/20/commodore-chessmate-replica-runs-on-the-esp32/