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Tricking a computer into cosplaying as a different computer entirely.

means Software or hardware that makes one system imitate another closely enough to run its programs as if it were the real thing.

from From Latin aemulari, 'to rival or strive to equal,' itself from aemulus, 'rival, striving to match another.' The word spent centuries meaning simple human ambition — trying to match or outdo someone — before the computing age bent it toward machines: one system straining, faithfully and uncannily, to match another's behavior.

not simulation
simulation mimics behavior, emulation recreates the actual hardware logic
speed tax
original chip did in 1 cycle what emulator needs 100 for
legal gray zone
the code is legal, the game files you downloaded probably aren't
console afterlife
keeps dead hardware playable long after the company stopped caring
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