Hi there, (btw: just got back from Tossa de Mar, Spain = cool and fudeba at some places). >NB: emulators are not a guarantee of survival for the MSX system just like >cyborgs are not a guarantee of survival for the human race. Above is one of the coolest remarks (and a great metaphor) I read about this subject. This is my view on emulators: I myself do not consider emulators saviours of a system, just look at the PSX and N64 which can be emulated quite good on a fast PC. An emulator can't give you the feeling what the emulated computer can do, it's still a "computer inside a computer" (you can't look into the hardware of the emulated computer, you don't have to know what is in there) but it adds this extra to the computer which is emulating. It's fun using them and developing those emulators (a friend of mine is a bit of making his own emulator, just for himself), but above all, for me it's a way to play all those games I ever wanted to play but didn't want to buy because I was young and didn't have the money to buy games such as Gradius 3 and Castlevania 4. Isn't it a mighty feeling to say you have all Megadrive games on 1 CD and you can play them? :-) Also, most systems nowadays are not available anymore (only on fleemarkets), let alone the software for it. The term "abandonwarez" can apply to those games. Now let's say that you're a fan of Gradius/Nemesis and you want to have all versions of it. You can buy all computers it is released on and find the preferred Gradius or download an emulator and the game. Very easy for people who live in the USA if we talk about MSX. I myself played the NES version of Maze of Galious last year on an emulator, just because I wanted to play a different Maze of Galious (which I still consider as one of the best games of all time). For the sake of nostalgia or completeness, emulators add a usefull contribution to the computer community. Just to show what a certain system was all about back then. Grtz Coen **** MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) ****
