So, next time you see an emulator programmer, give him or her a big hug. This hardware could be the circuits of an arcade machine, or a console like the Atari 2600 VCS . An emulator running on your computer allows your PC to act like the emulated system, and thus to play the games that were designed for that system. Unlike remakes, emulators run the actual programming code from an original game. Therefore, when you play an emulated game, you are, in effect, playing the original game.
Emulation is possible because of the increased power of today's microprocessors.
A 450MHz Pentium III can easily perform most functions of a processor developed 20 years ago. This explains why emulation is more popular for older games. Older stuff, however, works great, and that's what really matters to technological anachronisms like myself. Contact us for more information on GameSpy Industries.