the.com/emulation
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