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#10 What is an Emulator?

Kopec Explains Software

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How to Write an Emulator for a Computer?

You really need to know exactly why each little physical piece of the computer is doing in order to create software that's going to mimic it. Sometimes you can get away with being a little bit off and some of the software will still run. But there's also times where if you're just missing one instruction and the microprocessor might know how to do hundreds of different instructions, then the whole thing is going to fall apart. The level of precision that you need when you're writing an emulator is really quite high.

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