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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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Temporary execution in evil(vim-normal) state with C-o (just like using \ to temporary execution in emacs state)

editor: Emacs 24.2; plugin: evil; platform: windows 8 I want to use C-o to normal-mode, and gg to the beginning, but after using gg, the buffer automatically come back into emacs-mode. For example: (1) If I am in emacs mode, and I want to jump to…
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Mobile emulator to view source code?

I want to view source code on a WebApp, but when I enter the URL using my desktop, the browser it forwards to the desktop version. I then tried the Opera mobile emulator, but it functioned in every single way of a mobile device, including not…
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Chip8 Emulator - User Input

I have been writing a chip8 Emulator -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8 I have tested all of the opcodes as well as the graphics calculations and I am now struggling with the user input. I have the following method monitoring user input and…
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Qemu does not boot debian squeeze for PPC on x86_64

I've downloaded qemu for ppc and I also downloaded an debian sqeeze image for the ppc from http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/powerpc/. And as per that page, when I try to run the image using qemu-system-ppc -hda…
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Whitelist rejection for PhoneGap when emulating from command line

When I emulate my project through Xcode, I get no whitelist rejections. However, when I run through the command-line scripts as described by PhoneGap (namely build, emulate, and log), I get these: ERROR whitelist rejection:…
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Emulator from Java ME Platform SDK does not display text on Windows 7

I am trying to use vanilla j2me emulator from Java ME Platform SDK 3.2 on Windows 7 but it doesn't show any text on its screen. It draws all ui controls but there is no text both in my midlet and in in emulator menu. I assume that this is some kind…
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Application not getting installed on emulator: warning: opening audio input failed

I created a 'hello' project. I didn't change anything about the default template generated by eclipse. Then I ran the application. I didn't get any error. However, the application isn't being installed on the emulator. environment : windows7…
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sockets work on emulator but not on device Android

I have a strange issue, for a couple days now I thought my issue was with my code, however I got lazy and didn't hook my phone up to the computer to test it, which means it used the emulator to test and HOLY CRAP the sockets connected no problem on…
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Image is showing in gallery but after restarting emulator

I have implemented an application in which I am downloading an image from a url and storing it on an SD card. It is showing in the emulator gallery after restarting it. Is it possible to show images in a gallery without restarting emulator?
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MIDlet not running. Failed to initialize connection with emulator 6

I'm trying to run a simple midlet on Java ME SDK 3.0 integrated into Netbeans 7.1 on Windows 7 Ultimate (just a UI). It was running fine until yesterday but now its showing an error and i can't see the midlet in the emulator. I don't think its…
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Sony Smartwatch Emulator: Getting started

I downloaded Sony's most recent SDK which includes an unusual Emulator that is an APK that runs on an Android phone (I guess that is what you do with it). Anyway I see no documentation about how to use this to test/deploy apps. Am I supposed to have…
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Copying the OS fingerprint of an embedded device

I am developing an emulator for a closed source embedded device that includes a webserver. I'm building the emulator in embedded angstrom linux 2.6.34 using Python, and so far, I've functionally implemented the webserver to the point that it looks…
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Android Emulator Crashes on ig4icd32.dll with exception code c0000005 (emulator-arm.exe has stopped working)

I have been developing apps on Android for a while now. I have the development environment installed on my laptop and everything was working till this morning. I had the v15 and v10 SDK platforms and emulators installed. Just to try the Android…
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Establishing communication between two emulators in android

how to connect two emulator instances on the same machine and transfer data(a file) between them? I'm trying to establish communication between two emulators running on the same machine and I looked into the question above. But I don't find a way to…
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Android Emulator: Changing network bars

Does anyone know if it's possible to change the visible network bars in the android emulator? I've searched google, tried with telnet and DDMS, but no luck. Alternately, does anyone know where I can get png files of the bar images (in 2.3)? What I'm…
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