Comments on: How do emulators work? https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-do-emulators-work/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-do-emulators-work David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:36:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: brianholdsworth https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-do-emulators-work/#comment-55866 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:08:31 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=19133#comment-55866 Nice write up. I like the term “synthetic” for FPGA hardware. It synthesizes the hardware you want to re-create, but you can reboot it to synthesize something else.

Reminds me of leather. Everyone recognizes the advantages of real leather, but its much harder to care for and expensive, so the faux leather stuff is everywhere.

(I hope Tandy aficionados will appreciate my Leather Analogy:)

]]> By: Greg https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-do-emulators-work/#comment-53960 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:51:00 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=19133#comment-53960 I think the major difficulty in emulation today is the windows 95/98/XP era, which is why online shops such as Good Old Games have been so successful. People will say “use a virtual machine” but even here you will come across a host of problems with many titles, and that is before you factor in the necessity of having a working version of the operating system in question to install on the virtual machine.

I am sure there are techy ways to deal with this issue, but nothing that comes near the ease of use of most emulators available for just about any other machine.

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