Author: Yves Gablin (freeway.rd.francetelecom.fr)
Date: 11-22-2001 14:02
I think Shane is mostly right, but:
- you should not restrict to Windows. A portable emulator is better because then you choose what hardware and what software you run the emulator on. E.g. Linux has very good Atari emulators, some of which can run on PC, Mac, Sun, HP... hardware! No interference between mouse and sound card there.
- for the emulator to be actually better than the real hardware, it has to me as much compatible, including bugs. What's cool with software is that it is much easier to debug and correct than hardware. So it is easier to correct bugs is emulators than in the real machine. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer an emulator which corrects as much bugs from the original machine as possible (even if that means that I loose a few games in the process) than an emulator that is bug-to-bug the exact same thing as the hardware.
Yves.
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