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4 unusual facts about emulator


Arch Rivals

Emulated versions of the game were included in the compilations Midway Arcade Treasures 2, Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition, and Midway Arcade Origins.

Game engine recreation

Emulation of classical systems or operating systems is an alternative to an engine recreation; for instance DOSbox is a notable emulator of the PC/MS-DOS environment.

Sega Classics Collection

This game is not to be confused with the similarly titled Sega Genesis Collection, which contains 28 emulated classic games for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console in their original form includes three of the games in this collection (Bonanza Bros., Columns, Golden Axe).

Video game remake

In 2003, Sega launched the Sega Ages line for PlayStation 2, initially conceived as a series of modernized remakes of classic games, though the series later diversified to include emulated compilations.


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Ancient UNIX

So far there has been no widespread use of the code, but it can be used on emulator systems, and Version 5 Unix has been made to run on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance using the SIMH PDP-11 emulator.

Barry Appelman

Appelman's innovation included offloading of TCP/IP processing from IBM mainframes to OS/2 servers, graphical TCP/IP clients, SNMP and FTP APIs, fastest terminal emulator MYTE, S2 Spreadsheet that connected via TCP to IBM DB2, and many others.

Bleem!

Bleem! (styled as bleem!) was a commercial PlayStation emulator released by the Bleem Company in 1999 for IBM-compatible PCs and Dreamcast.

BMDFM

BMDFM dynamic scheduling subsystem performs an SMP emulation of Tagged-Token Dataflow Machine to provide the transparent dataflow semantics for the applications.

Borland Turbo Debugger

The original 1.0 release of Turbo Debugger for MS-DOS will run under simple MS-DOS emulators (DOSEMU, in an MS-DOS Window in Windows 95, 2000, etc.) The later versions attempt to control the underlying machine in a way not allowed by the host operating system (in which the emulator is running) and therefore do not work.

Clonewheel organ

By the 1990s and 2000s digital signal processing and sampling technologies allowed for better imitation of the original Hammond sound, and a variety of electronic organs, emulator devices, and synthesizers provided an accurate reproduction of the Hammond tone, such as the Kurzweil K2600 and Clavia Nord Electro keyboard.

DexDrive

Additionally, as PC files, game data could be shared over the Internet or be used with console emulators.

FidoNet

There are similar solutions for Linux such as MODEMU (modem emulator) which has limited success when combined with DOSEMU (DOS emulator).

GlobalView

Though the software it was based on had once been far ahead of its time (in terms of its integration and use of a graphical user interface), the high cost of the processor and later low speed of the emulator doomed it to poor sales (almost exclusively old customers of the Alto and Star, recognized as precursors of the Apple Macintosh but in themselves expensive corporate niche machines).

Hqx

In image processing, hqx ("hq" stands for "high quality" and "x" stands for magnification) is one of the pixel art scaling algorithms developed by Maxim Stepin, used in emulators such as Nestopia, FCEUX, higan, Snes9x, ZSNES and many more.

IEmulator

iEmulator 1.7.9 is a shareware PC emulator for PowerPC and Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.3.0 or later, based on QEMU.

NO$GBA

NO$GBA (pronounced "no cash GBA") is a free Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance emulator for Microsoft Windows & DOS.

Emulator developer, Martin Korth, first created a Game Boy emulator called NO$GMB for DOS in 1997.

QualNet

QualNet is a commercial version of GloMoSim used by Scalable Network Technologies (SNT) for their defense projects namely JTRS Network Emulator, BCNIS and Stratcom Cyber.

Rxvt

rxvt is an extended version of the older xvt terminal emulator by John Bovey of the University of Kent.

Sega Smash Pack ROM Loader

The Sega Smash Pack ROM Loader is a front-end loader program released by the warez group Echelon, allowing a user to load their own ROMs into the Sega Genesis emulator built into Sega's Sega Smash Pack Volume 1 game for the Dreamcast.

Snes9x

The emulator does not meet the Free Software Foundation's free software definition or the Open Source Initiative's open source definition, since it is a violation of the license to sell Snes9x, and both definitions prohibit restrictions of use or discrimination against fields of endeavor.

Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corporation

Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix Corporation, 203 F.3d 596 (2000), is a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which ruled that the copying of a copyrighted BIOS software during the development of an emulator software does not constitute copyright infringement, but is covered by fair use.

The Wollongong Group

Eunice - A UNIX emulator for the VAX VMS operating system (based on software written by David Kashtan at SRI)

VS/9

However, RCA had sold the patents and designs for its CCM terminal controller to Singer Corporation, so Univac developed an emulator device for the CCM which was known as the Multiterminal Connection Controller model 16, or MCC-16.

XBMC4Xbox

XBMC4Xbox has a "My Programs" section which functions as a replacement dashboard to launch Xbox games (retail and homebrew) and applications/emulator directly off the Xbox built-in harddrive, all from a GUI with thumbnail and list options.


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