Emulation - The Legalities, Ethics, Benefits and Drawbacks

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SvennoJ said:

Same for DOSBox in that case. Yet DOSBox really isn't the same thing as nobody is selling DOS games to run solely on original DOS machines

Retro City Rampage 486 is a commercial DOS game that was released in 2015. There was also ports to the Playstation 4, PSP, 3DS, Xbox 360, iOS, Android etc'.

And it also works under DosBox.

SvennoJ said:

Well, when I see threads promoting HZD running in a virtual machine on hardware it was not intended to run on, I'll be in that thread :p

Microsoft uses virtualization in conjunction with emulation to achieve it's backwards compatability with Xbox 360 titles on the Xbox One.

SvennoJ said:

Well, when I see threads promoting HZD running in a virtual machine on hardware it was not intended to run on, I'll be in that thread :p

That will happen one day.

You can for instance virtualize a windows environment on a Linux/Mac OSX machine and then run a windows emulator from there. Once Playstation 4 emulators are up to snuff, the same thing will be possible.

But I think you might be confusing Emulation and Virtualization a bit. They have similarities and they both do emulation to various degrees, but their goals/objectives are vastly different.