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how "pure" is this. Can this be integrated somehow as a world of warcraft extension, interface modules there are written in lua as well.

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I don't see why not! The release itself uses Love2D just because that's easy to run on most machines, but the gameboy module (in the /gameboy folder) has no non-Lua dependencies or code. Its "bit" library or equivalent should be available in most environments.

Essentially you could use import the /gameboy module, write your own shell as a WoW extension, toss the graphics onscreen somewhere, and optionally deal with audio by setting the appropriate callback.

The first bullet point under the Supported Features section in the readme states that it works on any Lua that provides a bit manipulation library. I know LuaJIT comes with one, and Lua 5.3 comes with bitwise operators, so those could be wrapped up into a compatible module.

I seems to depend on the Löve Framework for actually drawing the emulation

This release does, yes. The actual emulation of the system is straight Lua and does not require Löve at all. You could run the emulator completely headless (as I was pestering zeta to do during development for testing), but there's not yet a headless driver. This also means that you just have to provide the hooks for drawing/sound/input/file IO to give it a different front end. Löve is what was used because it's what we're familiar with.

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