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The most prominent processor emulator among emulation fans is [[MAME]], which allows you to play on your personal computer many programs that were written specifically for arcade machines. Besides arcade games, emulators have been written for a variety of home console systems, such as the [[NES]], [[Super Nintendo]], and [[Sega Genesis]], and a great number of earlier home computer systems, such as the [[Atari 800]], [[Commodore 64/128]], and [[Sinclair ZX Spectrum]]. | The most prominent processor emulator among emulation fans is [[MAME]], which allows you to play on your personal computer many programs that were written specifically for arcade machines. Besides arcade games, emulators have been written for a variety of home console systems, such as the [[NES]], [[Super Nintendo]], and [[Sega Genesis]], and a great number of earlier home computer systems, such as the [[Atari 800]], [[Commodore 64/128]], and [[Sinclair ZX Spectrum]]. | ||
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An ''operating system'' emulator aims to work around the fact that that different operating systems have different APIs (application programming interfaces, i.e. conventions for requesting services from the operating system, such as allocating memory, drawing on the screen and detecting keyboard, mouse and joystick actions), incompatibilities that would otherwise be crippling even though the processor can handle the program's machine language. One of the best-known operating system emulators is DOSBox, which makes it possible to run most [[DOS]] games on Windows, Mac OS and Linux systems. | An ''operating system'' emulator aims to work around the fact that that different operating systems have different APIs (application programming interfaces, i.e. conventions for requesting services from the operating system, such as allocating memory, drawing on the screen and detecting keyboard, mouse and joystick actions), incompatibilities that would otherwise be crippling even though the processor can handle the program's machine language. One of the best-known operating system emulators is DOSBox, which makes it possible to run most [[DOS]] games on Windows, Mac OS and Linux systems. | ||
