Reply 20 of 42, by butterfly
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That's right. Emulating is not the same as the real thing. Even if we could reach a perfect level of emulation it will never have the same look-and-feel such as bothering background noises which years ago we wanted to get rid off and an LCD monitor can't give us the same warmth as an old CRT could.
Points go to
- the lack of space
- the lack of time, sure because it can be a hobby but in the end nostalgia carries the need to see it working and it doesn't mean it's merely a pastime
- curiosity for software or hardware from the past that we never saw operating
- emulating complex systems such as DOS, not because it was complex itself but rather because its last spreads through decades of system modification and upgradable hardware making the range of possibilities practically infinite, is not easy.
In the end it's thanks to emulation that I could play with my long-standing friend we could play a game older than 20 years ago and have a good time with it.
Emulation of DOS software requires a minimum knowledge of what you're trying to make work to tune the emulator to "understand" how to make that software work as correctly as possible to play it.
Perhaps one day "they" will start producing new old mini computers of 286 class, or maybe not.
But, concluding, emulation lies in the bottom of humanity because we learn through emulation: Emulation of parents, friends, actors, pop-stars behaviours, not meaning it's all good but that's all of us does somehow.