Why is emulation needed?
The first computer I ever owned as a kid was a 386 machine. I broke it after a few months given my curiosity. My father was so pissed at me that the next computer I got came 10 years later, and it was as Moore predicted – exponentially faster than the one I had previously. It was an Intel Pentium III, and I was already a teenager, so I’d traded my computer for a PlayStation or a simple Game Boy. So, once my 56K modem was connected, a thought started to occur to me. What if… yeah, what if I can execute a PlayStation game on this PC? I just made a very simple analogy – PlayStation works with CD-ROMs, and games are copied through computers, so there should be something in common there.
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