eli5: Why do we need emulators to play old games? why can’t we just make the games work without the emulator?
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A guy in Florida grew up in Canada, and wants to play some ice hockey. As a kid, he would just go to any old lake in the winter, and go for a skate on the frozen lake, or the many backyard/park outdoor rinks scatted everywhere. The Sport was designed for Winter/Ice, but In Florida, he can’t, there is no natural ice for the man to go skate on, so he has to go to a Ice Arena where they emulate Cold temperatures to get ice.
That’s the best analogy I can give, The Older Games were built for those older Operating Systems and you can’t just always run that older game on a different OS,
Some games can be played, or redesigned to work on the newer OS(called a Port generally, “that game was Ported to PC from Xbox.”), going back to the Ice hockey, maybe you use rollerblades instead of Skates, and play on the street, its often not as good as the real thing(Crappy PC Ports from Console, and vice versa) but you can still play the sport now. It often costs a bunch of money to do this however, and it’s often far cheaper for people to make a fake OS(Arena) to emulate it inside your current OS
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