What's an emulator?

Answer 1

Emulation refers to the ability of a program or device to imitate another program or device. Many printers, for example, are designed to emulate Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printers because so much software is written for HP printers. By emulating an HP printer, a printer can work with any software written for a real HP printer. Emulation "tricks" the software into believing that a device is really some other device.

A hardware emulator is an emulator which takes the form of a hardware device. Examples include printer emulators inside the ROM of the printer, and FPGA-based hardware emulators.

In a theoretical sense, the Church-Turing thesis implies that any operating environment can be emulated within any other. In practice, it can be quite difficult, particularly when the exact behavior of the system to be emulated is not documented and has to be deduced through reverse engineering. It also says nothing about timing constraints; if the emulator does not perform as quickly as the original hardware, the emulated software may run much more slowly than it would have on the original hardware.

Answer 2

An Emulator is pretty much a program that acts like (or enables you to use things for) consoles, phones, etc. In some RARE casses you will find that using an Emulator is LEGAL. Most of the time it is HIGHYL ILEGAL. I have personal used a Gameboy emulator on another computer (my brother told me I should use it) because I liked MegaMan and the games are very rare in australia but I haver deleted the emulator. I would not suggest you use an Emulator unless you have lots of knowledge in what your doing, where to get it, how it's used, where to download things for it (eg. PS2 game files for a PS2 Emulator), all the legal stuff, the copyright info, and how to back-up your computer. I highly suggest you don't use Emulators if you don't need them. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

It makes your more advanced computer pretend to be a less advanced older computer that uses the same set up and programming that the older gaming computer is.

Another words modern computers can compute rings around the older ones with a clock speed that would make older games run too fast to even see the graphics. The architecture (the physical way it is built and the actual circuit plans themselves) of the modern computers is so different that it is hard to rewrite some programs for those older games to operate on a new machine.

The emulator slows down the clock speed and simulates the older computer's architecture. Thus you can play games meant only for a Commodore 64 on a new computer that is running Windows Vista. Of course you have to have a modern system that can read those old games. Back them 3.5” disks were still new, CDs were only for music and memory sticks were only a faint fantasy. If you have those old games on a 3.5” disk then with the emulator you can play these classic games again.

Answer 4

It's a computer program that other people have created console games on. For instance, you could get a Super Mario 64 emulator, and you would be playing the game that was originally for the N64. A word of caution: emulators are illegal...

Answer 5

An Emulator is a Program that lets you play Different types of video games in your computer.

Answer 6

Certainly one use of the word was for a program that let one operating system function like another - you run an emulator program on your Apple, for instance, so you can run a Windows program.

As the systems get more coordinated not as useful as it once was - but I had ana Atari that ran Apple programs faster than the Apple computer did, using an emulator program.

Answer 7

An emulator is basically an executable program that simulates other gaming systems(Nintendo, Sega, etc.). The games for emulators are called ROMs.

Answer 8

emulators emulate a system for example a gameboy emulator emulates the gameboy enviroment allowing you to play gameboy roms on your computer or pda.

Answer 9

an emulator is a game system on ur computer that u can ply

Answer 10

visit this site you can see all about EMULATOR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator