▲ 307 ▼ After 11 years, Xbox One emulators are finally coming to PC - but they're not actually using emulation at all (www.gamesradar.com) submitted 2 years ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world 57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 2 years ago* (2 children) chuckle Author apparently thinks hardware emulation is the only kind of emulation. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (1 child) Wine is not an Emulator is not an emulator. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Gnu's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago personal homepage hypertext preprocessor hypertext preprocessor permalink fedilink source parent [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 child) API wrappers are not emulators. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Anything that emulates something else is an emulator. That something else could be hardware, or runtime behavior, or services, or a combination thereof. (It could even be a turtle, although we're talking about computers in this case.) Wine is an interesting example despite that silly backronym that was abandoned years ago, or perhaps because of it. It not only translates system and API calls, but also provides Windows work-alike services and copies Windows runtime behavior, including undocumented behavior. If it were just an API wrapper or "translation layer", a lot of its functionality wouldn't work. The shape of a business envelope might not be an equilateral rectangle, but it is still a rectangle. But go ahead and believe what you want. I'm not looking for an argument. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (1 child) Wine is not an Emulator is not an emulator. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Gnu's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago personal homepage hypertext preprocessor hypertext preprocessor permalink fedilink source parent
[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Gnu's Not Unix Image Manipulation Program permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago personal homepage hypertext preprocessor hypertext preprocessor permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago personal homepage hypertext preprocessor hypertext preprocessor permalink fedilink source parent
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 child) API wrappers are not emulators. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Anything that emulates something else is an emulator. That something else could be hardware, or runtime behavior, or services, or a combination thereof. (It could even be a turtle, although we're talking about computers in this case.) Wine is an interesting example despite that silly backronym that was abandoned years ago, or perhaps because of it. It not only translates system and API calls, but also provides Windows work-alike services and copies Windows runtime behavior, including undocumented behavior. If it were just an API wrapper or "translation layer", a lot of its functionality wouldn't work. The shape of a business envelope might not be an equilateral rectangle, but it is still a rectangle. But go ahead and believe what you want. I'm not looking for an argument. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Anything that emulates something else is an emulator. That something else could be hardware, or runtime behavior, or services, or a combination thereof. (It could even be a turtle, although we're talking about computers in this case.) Wine is an interesting example despite that silly backronym that was abandoned years ago, or perhaps because of it. It not only translates system and API calls, but also provides Windows work-alike services and copies Windows runtime behavior, including undocumented behavior. If it were just an API wrapper or "translation layer", a lot of its functionality wouldn't work. The shape of a business envelope might not be an equilateral rectangle, but it is still a rectangle. But go ahead and believe what you want. I'm not looking for an argument. permalink fedilink source parent