Meet Our Forums - Ngemu.com
Stats
The largest CrowdGather.com site, Ngemu.com, reaches over 387K people monthly, of which 119K are in the U.S. The site appeals to a teen, male audience. As of September 2009, there were 242,312 members, 1,664,063 posts and 118,469 threads. The site was founded in 2001 and acquired by Crowdgather.com in 2008.
About Ngemu.com
Ngemu is the official online pit stop for today’s gamers. It is a location where users an vote on the best of the emulation projects, spread the word about new emulators, report on news about an established project, and get the scoop on the latest releases. Emulator specific forums include pSX, Xbox Gamecube and many others. The site caters to the emu savvy or beginners trying to run Donkey Kong on Windows 2000. Emulators compare notes with ngemu members and get hints and tips on their favorite games.
What is emulation software?
When I first started looking at Ngemu.com I was struck by two things; first that there are hundreds of thousands of people on this site and second that I had no idea what emulation software was.
Emulation is best described as imitating a certain computer platform or program on another platform or program. In this manner, it is possible to view documents or run programs on a computer not designed to do so.
Example HP:
Many printers, for example, are designed to emulate Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printers because so much software is written for HP printers. By emulating an HP printer, a printer can work with any software written for a real HP printer. Emulation "tricks" the running software into believing that a device is really some other device.
History
The term emulator began to be used in 1957 at IBM. It was an optional feature in the IBM 709 that would allow you to execute IBM 704 programs on the newer IBM 709.
It used to be that emulation only referred to hardware and that when one referred to software you would always use the word "simulate." However, in current times emulate is used when you have a complete imitation of a machine executing binary code.
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