| Frank van Schie 2005-09-27, 5:36 am |
| Miracle Smith wrote:
quote:
> Whoa, that's way beyond anything I'll ever have a need for.
>
> THANK GOODNESS!!!! ROFL
>
> It makes total sense, though, as a whole lot of things have computer
> components in them. Look at what's happened under the hood of any
> automobile in the last decade or two. And my Roomba vacuum- it's
> got to have some sort of computer in it to guide it around, or "see" the
> spots it thinks are heavily soiled so it makes multiple passes.
>
> Thanks for more education! 
For a more mundane use of emulators, think of old game-consoles or
arcade machines; these things didn't have IBM PC's in them, so you can't
run their software directly. However there are emulators that can read
the software, translate whatever the game wants to do to what the
underlying system can do, and voila.
For a useful one: http://www.mame.net/
Three legal roms, probably sucky: http://www.mameworld.net/legal.html
For not-so-legal roms try: http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/mame.html
(make sure not to fall for any phishing or spamming attempts)
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