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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When I was a kid, we had a super fast PC, a full on 486. It had a “turbo” button, and I never really understood why. You always left it on or the thing would be super slow.
Then I got an older 286 game from a friend to play. It was over in like two seconds and I died.
Turned off the turbo and all of a suddenly the over-in-two-seconds-game was playable! The super fast 486 processor made the game run at like 100x speed and turning off the “turbo” button made it run like a 286.
I’m sure that programming is a lot more sophisticated today, but it was remarkable how just a little hardware adjustment can really throw things off.
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