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How does virtualizing differ from emulation, in terms of structure?

Someone told me that a virtualizing program like VirtualBox does not work like an emulator does in the sense that it doesn't emulate registers and uses the actual ones for the virtualized data that ...
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Is there a way to install the Mobile Emulation tools in Chrome?

Google removed the emulation tools from Chrome, and it's now achievable in Chrome Canary, which I don't want to install. Is there a way to get it in the regular installation of Chrome I have on my ...
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Can a single person develop a Sega Genesis emulator? [closed]

Someone told me that Sega Genesis emulation can not be done by one person, not even for many years. Why is this? Small indie teams and open source projects make emus for free, and there's a video on ...
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Enable Touch Events Chrome

Google Chrome used to have an option for enabling touch events in the browser. F12->Overrides->Enable Touch Events. With the latest version of Google Chrome for the desktop I can't for the life of me ...
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Windows 3.11 maximized shell window in SYSTEM.INI when running it in DOSBox

I use a way to run 16-bit applications by running them in emulated Windows 3.11 in DOSBox. I automatically mount the directory containing the application, set the SHELL property in SYSTEM.INI to the ...
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Android ADT/Eclipse compatible with Windows 8.1

I have Windows 8.1 and have installed the android adt (sdk) with eclipse. I can create a new app, but when I try and run it, the emulator explodes. The emulator window pops up than has to exit. I ...
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Do emulators parse binary code within files?

I have seen some emulators that claim they execute, and even though they do, their source code shows they don't directly parse every 1 and 0 to determine an instruction. My question is, if the ...
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Why CPU emulation is slow [closed]

Different CPU (IA-32, ARM9 etc.) operations should be equivalent in their nature (move, read, write data etc.). It shouldn't be that painful for different CPUs to emulate each other. But seems like it'...
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wanem does not apply delay in both directions

I'm new here so please cut me some slack because i'm not very familiar with the procedures here :) Anyway i have a LAN with three PCs' (A,B,C) A,C are some simple clients and B is a bridge with WANem ...
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Will QEMU emulate processors newer than the one in which it's running?

If I compile QEMU in Linux running on a 486 processor, will it be able to emulate the Pentium processor features on it (like MSR)? And, if it doesn't, is there any way to emulate the Pentium features ...
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Reading a disk image without extension

I have three files that are supposed to be disks image with a .img extension. However, when I look at their properties, Windows says that it's just a file, without any extension. I tried to manually ...
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Can one make a Macbook behave like a USB-Drive

Is there a Way to emulate an usb-drive with a Macbook? I do not mean to emulate usb drives on my macbook! I would like to plug a double usb cable to my macbook and e.g. my TV. I want the TV to think ...
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How to emulate mouse scroll in openbox?

I use laptop a lot and have no mouse. I use trackpoint which substitutes the mouse very well except scrolling. Is it possible to bind scrolling of windows to - for example - 'Ctrl + middle + mouse? I ...
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What do you call the "action of" striping threads across multiple processors? [closed]

A question of curiousity, I understand [one thread per core] or with time slicing, [many threads one core] But, is there a way even through emulation, even with a performance cost, to... how to say... ...
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How to make a Terminal (running in an Atari ST emulator on a Mac) talk to a Telnet BBS?

There are a number of Atari ST BBSes still running today, available via Telnet. I connect to some of these occasionally using SyncTerm on my Mac. It would be even better to use an ATARI Terminal ...
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