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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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Emulating Akamai caching envinronment

I am trying to test some code and view how it would work when it was cached using Akamai. Can anyone recommend a tool or add-on, that would allow me to emulate a page load as it would be when Cached by Akamai?
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Emulator keyboard input in Linux

After updating SDK tools rev to 20, Android emulator doesn't take keyboard input from my desktop keyboard. When press a key of the desktop keyboard, the emulator will dead and I have to kill its process. Android emulator also didn't take keyboard…
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adb pull/push is very slow on android emulator

Has anyone tried to push/pull large files(more than 20MB) to/from an android Emulator target? When I did the adb push/pull operation, it is ridiculously slow. The average speed is 75 KB/s. Oh my, that was the speed of my high school network 15…
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Galaxy Tab 2 Emulator

What do I need to do to get a working emulator of Galaxy Tab 2 (ICS 4.0) 10.1 in Eclipse? In the SDK manager I can see "Galaxy Tab" addon but it's for Android 2.2 (API8). Can I create it in AVD manager with some specific resolution, screen density,…
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Decrementing (DEX/DEY Opcodes) when X and Y are 0 for 6502 Cpu

I'm currently attempting to write an NES emulator through .NET and I have a question about the particular opcodes that do decrementing and incrementing... Since X, and Y registers are 8 bits, in terms of implementation, is it an unsigned or signed…
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Error running Android App that uses OpenCV

When I ran code using opencv on the Android emulator the following error was displayed on the emulator's screen: OPENCV MANAGER PACKAGE NOT FOUND. TRY TO INSTALL IT? The code was successfully built and installed. I saw the following in…
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Python, ctypes, DLLs and PCOMM emulation. How can I pre-allocate a variable?

After a long time learning python I finally managed to make some breakthroughs: I'm using the following code to connect to a personal communications terminal: from ctypes import * import sys PCSHLL32 = windll.PCSHLL32 hllapi = PCSHLL32.hllapi def…
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How to avoid the overhead of DummyNet pipes

I am working on a project where I would like to emulate latencies like nodes that are located in diffrent countries. To be more specific I want to emulate the PlanetLab system in a LAN using DummyNet. So that a node in the LAN to run multiple…
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Move an android emulator snapshot to another computer

So, I need to make one snapshot that can be used by multiple people/across multiple computers. I'm doing some testing, and a lot of things need to be setup to test one thing. It takes a while to set things up, and I'd like to be able to just create…
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ICS Emulator will not create Calendar Account

Please help. I absolutely need to be able to test the Calendar.contract provider in my app using the SDK emulator. Purchasing a $400 hardware device just to test is not a real option. I have seen the posts that remind us that we need to target the…
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Android emulator resolution, aliasing, gpu emulation

I just downloaded the Android 4.1 (API 16) packages using the SDK Manager and created an Emulator for JellyBean. What I see now is everything on the JellyBean emulator is aliasing. When I open the screen capture dialog in DDMS, the screen is HUGE -…
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Android landscape orientation. Emulator doesn't respond

screenshot http://sdl1.4pda.ru/1862622/image/jpeg/portrait.JPG?00169e49ceae42635003442300000000de9e7e77de71680003e699507907d6e9 screenshot…
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Android Inter-app relations

While there are questions relevant to mine, none are quite answering them to the extent of what I was looking for. First off, is it possible to have a downloadable Android app that "runs on top of another app" that is, it emulates a pre-defined…
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Camera on Android emulator doesn't work

I'm a begginer android programmer and I have a problem with the camera. What I'm trying to do is to get a preview on the camera. The problem is, Camera.open() always returns null. The code goes like this: CameraPreview.java public class…
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Issue with SQLLOCALDB

When in try to start azure storage emulator i get the following error. Probing Failed. Retrying probe for localDB Probing SQL Instance: '(localdb)\v11.0'. Caught exception while probing for SQL endpoint. A network-related or instance-specific error…
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