The word "emulator" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a software program that allows a computer to mimic the functions of another device or operating system. Example Sentence: I downloaded an emulator so I can experience the nostalgic feeling of playing old video games on my laptop.
One popular emulator, Connectix's Virtual PC (www.connectix.com), emulates all flavors of Windows including XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98, 95 and 3.1, as well as OS/2, DOS and Unix.
Another option is emulation, in which a software program impersonates a retro hardware environment; essentially, an emulator temporarily "downgrades" a modern computer to act like an old one.
I found the manifesto from the original MP3 piracy clique, a document so old I needed an MS-DOS emulator just to view it.
It allows software to run on any device capable of emulating a fictitious computer, called a "Java virtual machine", that does not even physically exist.The simplest sort of software emulator, called an interpreter, works by looking up each instruction from the foreign program to find how to carry out the equivalent operation on the host machine.
The American courts have, however, so far ruled in favour of Connectix.Connectix is a veteran of the emulator business.
It began as a free-for-all in which commands were executed as entered, with many queued, skipped or ignored by the emulator.
The company has designed WOA so that not only is it unable to run existing Windows programs, but it also cannot use a software emulator as a fudge for doing so.
Alternatively, it's possible to play the game in your browser through the Archive.org emulator.
Also on view are masses of early work which establish Hopper's talents, developed in Paris, as a master sketcher and an apt emulator of Post-Impressionism — gifts that he plowed under to achieve a mature style, which confronts the world not as a reflection but as a précis of soul-testing melancholy and life-saving glints of grace.
(The MS-DOS games run on an emulator that allows a Web browser to mimic the original operating system.*) Still, their social, political, and cultural context remains hidden.
In fact, Scott oversaw the online implementation of the emulator by volunteers.
