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None of these are emulators. Cygwin is a POSIX API subsystem for Windows; cygwin programs such as the cygwin version of bash are natively compiled Windows programs. LINE and WINE ("WINE is Not an Emulator"!) are similar, respectively supplying a POSIX API on Windows and a Win32 API on Unix, combined with a binary loader for the other OS's executable format and capturing and translation of system calls. There is no emulation of hardware. --Brion 17:55 22 May 2003 (UTC)
I keep going to make edits to this page, but hardly know where to begin. (Pretty funny, considering I created it in the first place :) Part of the problem is that there are so many emulators out there. Zophar's Domain (http://www.zophar.net/nes) lists almost 70 NES emulators for Windows alone, 26 of which are mostly if not fully functional. Listing them all (along with all the ones for other platforms and other systems) would be an enormous list, and not at all helpful to a reader of the article, but trying to select a few based on some set of perceived merits would be difficult.
Considered formatting all of it as a table, possibly with columns for each of the major platforms that the emulator has been ported to (Win/DOS/Linux/BeOS/Mac/Other), but that would be just about as long. Also considered listing them in comma-separated form, but then it'd end up looking like one of the "List of ___ topics" pages (such as List of legal topics), which are often hard to look at. Again, this would not be very useful to the reader, unless many of them have their own articles (which they most likely will not have).
Perhaps it should be split into multiple articles? Perhaps the article shouldn't be here at all? Perhaps it would make more sense to turn it into a set of articles on the historical development of emulators, how some of them borrowed from others, etc., but that's a pretty big undertaking.
I'd love to hear other ideas. I'm interested in writing about emulation but I'd hate for this to become a pet project of mine that I someday get bored with and leave a mess for someone else to clean up, a la Atlas Shrugged. Suggestions are welcome! -- Wapcaplet 21:41 23 May 2003 (UTC)
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