Retro Gaming

[jbran23]

I have seen that quite a few times but what is an emulator? Im not all that computer savvy so your entire 2nd sentence is greek to me. lol

[HitIt]

I have seen that quite a few times but what is an emulator? Im not all that computer savvy so your entire 2nd sentence is greek to me. lol

old ROM chips from old arcade machines, PC's and gaming systems like atari and NES and dumped (the code/software from the ROM chips) onto mordern computer systems like your pc or mac and the emulator software makes the code/software from these old machines "think" that it is running on its own old hardware and in its old software environment. it's actually running on your computer. since the old code/software "thinks" it's running on its old hardware, it performs in the same manner it was intended to, therefore, saving the old code/and hardware for posterity. having the old software run the same exact way it was originally intended, sound and video alike, is a focus of emulation programs. the emulator emulates the various sound and video chips (hardware) of the old sytems.

MAME is the most popular arcade emulator.....http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/ is probably the best site/forum dedicated to emulators (and no, it's not a porn site, the site name refers to the poem about gangis khan,xanadu. ect, bla bla bla)