My view is that back in '95 or so, when the emulators first kicked off, not emulating currently-available hardware made sense; however I think that these days anyone who wants to use the real machine will continue to do so whether on not their favourite bit of hardware is emulated.
I will not be going back to slow loading times, corrupted disks and endless 5-minute modify-assemble-run-crash-reboot cycles. Those (like me) who just want to have a quick play with stuff they used to enjoy will probably only ever use emulators - I don't really see that the two markets overlap. But hey, I have little enough time to play with my "real world" stuff, let alone the nostalgic kind. I'm probably not part of either group any more :( Geoff 2010/3/2 Adrian Brown <adr...@apbcomputerservices.co.uk> > Obviously opened a can of worms there :D It was only my thoughts, while i > understand what people are saying about the SID chip being connected in lots > of ways, but if 10 people made the same bit of hardware then they would > probably interface it differently. I guess I just wouldnt like people like > Colin stop making hardware as it got emulated and then people didnt purchase > the actual hardware. Then myself for one much prefer to use the real > hardware so it wouldnt stop me anyway. > > Always interested to see other peoples views on these things :D > >
