5 Feb
2007
5 Feb
'07
10:17 p.m.
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Jim Leonard wrote:
I tried to explain to a younger person why I still
have an Apple when
every disk under the sun has been dumped to image files, and Apple II
emulators are 99.99999% perfect. I told him it's because there is a
certain flavor of experience that can't be emulated when using the real
thing. The noise of the disk drive (*), the long wait times, etc.
contribute to the experience. An Apple II emulator which silently loads
programs in one second isn't right. (And arcade emulators that don't
even make an attempt at reproducing scanlines also irk me.)
(*) How many of you did this internally when you read that:
"Brrrrrrrrrrrr-RATDATDATDATDATDATDATDATDAT!" :-)
It's not the same unless the table shakes while the drive does its thing.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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