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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Chess and Checkers both use the same board.
You can imagine then that the games themselves consist of the 64 chess pieces, or 64 checkers pieces (plus the rules for playing with them) and that the “platform” for the game is the 8×8 two-coloured board you play on. Different games in the same space.
So you dig out the game from your loft, but you only have the pieces, because it was designed for the common chess/checkers board platform, which of course you already had.. painted onto a table which has since been trashed or gifted to your older brother.
You need a board to play on, it doesn’t work without one. So you could spend 20 minutes with a ruler and a sheet of cardboard and a bunch of markers drawing a grid..
But it’s the future, so to make your board, you tap a couple keys in your smart-table and it brings up a fancy two-colour 8×8 grid to play on. Much easier.
That’s a simple example of an emulator in action.
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