Hi Dark Thanks for explaining this. Please bare with me, I am still confused about what emulators do. Do I have to buy the game console in order to emulate its games on my pc? Or do I only have to buy the cartridge containing the games? If so, how do I put the console cartridge into my pc? Is the emulator idea cheeper than buying the console? I want to do this legally from the start, but I am in the dark as to what emulators do. Can I connect a joystick to my pc if I have a console emulator? And lastly, can I emulate games legally such as Mario brothers and sircus Charlie? I can always ask my sighted friends to assist me in playing mainstream games. Many thanks for any info. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 29 March 2011 08:31 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] new psx game uploaded and v 1.0 of emulatorstomorrow!
Hi Nicol. An emulator is a program designed to pretend to be another piece of hardware running on your pc. If you wanted for instance, you could run a comador 64 computer emulator and use it's word processer function. However, obviously the thing people most want to do with emulators is emulate games consoles or computer systems of the past and run games. Thus, when running correctly, an emulator gets you precisely the same as you'd get if you physically had a nes, snes, ps1 or whatever. They thus don't specifically help with access, sinse unfortunately it's not possible to read the graphically emulated text with your pc screen reader (if it was that would be awsome, but sadly no). So, emulators are basically just another way of playing mainstream games, and one which, as Tom says is of dubious legality. I personally haven't run that many emulators, simply because I prefer to play games on original consoles and sinse I have a perfectly working Snes gamecube and Mega drive there really is no need for me to. beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
