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For questions about emulation and emulators, where a computer program is emulating (imitating) the behavior of another program or hardware device.

An emulator is a system which is designed to perform the duties of a different system. An emulator is distinct from a simulator (an emulator is intended to replicate the external behaviour of a system, whereas a simulator replicates the internal behaviour). See:

Emulators are commonly used to allow programs written for one system to be run on a different system. This is desirable when developing for a wide variety of target platforms, or when maintaining old programs designed for deprecated hardware.

One type of emulator that emulates a computer is called a . These are used by companies so they can tests their apps on the emulator rather than on an actual hardware.

Examples of some emulators:

Questions in this tag should relate in some way to the implementation or usage of a computer system which is an emulator.

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Android Emulator: Show GPU Overdraw

Since I've read this I've been trying to create an emulator where I can use the "Show GPU Overdraw". I followed the tips here and there, but in the new tools, when creating a new AVD, I find no way of enabling the GPU emulation. That's probably why…
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Create android AVD without 3G connection

One of the functions in my app sends data over the internet. Before attempting to send the data, I check whether a connection exists: private boolean isConnected() { ConnectivityManager connectivityManager =…
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Android Media Player streaming - works in emulator, fails on hardware

I'm facing a weird problem related to Android, streaming and Media Player. The actual app is quite complex, but I have put the simplest possible test case: a 'Hello, World' activity launches Media Player with a hard-coded URL. This works fine in…
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Change the cursor icon for Android Emulator in Ubuntu

I am happy to have x86 Android emulation, and I want to now use it for promotional videos of my apps. One last thing to fix is to change the mouse cursor from a pointer to a translucent dot. I started to look at it, and blogs point me in the…
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How to run GPS based application (WikiTude) in Android SDK Emulator?

I am writing an Android application which uses WikiTude API. I installed the WikiTude browser application in the Android SDK emulator from Android Market (To get Android Market in emulator I followed this link…
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compiling source from android externel folder

I have AOSP android-4.0.1_r1 downloaded from Android site. http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html There is OpenSSH folder and source inside /external folder. When I compiled the entire aosp for emulator, I am not able to ssh executable…
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MacbookPro restarts whenever I open Android Emulator

I just installed the HAXM from Intel and whenever I try to open now an emulator with Intel Atom x86 CPU the computer restarts. I am running the laptop on OSX Mountain Lion Anyone have any idea why is this happening?
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Can a Context Menu open an Image View?

Attention: This question is different and is not an exact duplicate. This states that the image needs to pop up without a dialog. No one even bothered going through this question to see if it was a duplicate which it is not. I am trying to open an…
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Testing an ARM CPU emulator

I'm currently writing a Gameboy Advance emulator, purely for fun. It has an ARM7TDMI CPU, and I've written most of the CPU emulation code. My question is, how does one go about testing it? Testing it out on random GBA software doesn't hugely help -…
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For testing GPS based J2ME app, Is there any emulator which have built in GPS?

I am new in J2ME app development field. I am developing GPS based app using Nokia Maps for series 40 mobiles. I want such emulator which provide GPS(to retrieve & set current coordinates & many other purposes). I search a lot on google but I didn't…
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Emulator for MonoDevelop

I am using MonoDevelop for Android and have a question about the Emulator. For some strange reason, half the time that I try to use the emulator, it does not work. The emulator starts up, gets to the login screen, and the IDE still shows that the…
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Android Emulator - how to view file in Emulator which transfered from computer to emulator

I have pushed file in to emulator's sdcard from computer. I need to view that file in emulator. But the file is not listed. I dont know how to find its path. I mean we dont have something like "My files" in emulator. So how can we view the file?…
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Launch Android emulator in landscape orientation

Is there any way to tell Eclipse to launch the Android Emulator (4.1.2) in landscape mode? My reason for asking is that changing the orientation (using one of the keyboard shortcuts) after starting the emulator does not seem to affect the home and…
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can not post data to apache localhost using android emulator

i am trying to post data on wamp's apache localhost using port no 8080 using below given code. public class postdata extends Activity { Button btnpost; EditText txtname,txtsalary; TextView lblstatus; String hostname; @Override …
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Intel 8080 Instruction : OUT

I am trying to emulate the Intel 8080 instruction set, and I got stuck on this instruction OUT D8, which according to the book Intel 8080/8085 Assembly Language Programming it says that The OUT instruction places the contents of the accumulator on…
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