Emulation accuracy: Difference between revisions

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*'''[[:Category:Emulators|Emulation]]''' endeavors to recreate an entire historical architecture. This digital reconstruction seeks to faithfully capture the instruction set, timing behaviors, hardware features and even peripheral nuances of a bygone hardware platform. In years, lots of techniques and other technologies come in useful to emulator development which is mentioned in [[High/Low level emulation#Future Outlook]] section. Thanks to this, emulators achieve impressive levels of [[Frames_per_second|performance]] and compatibility, further unlocking the doors to historical software [[Preservation_projects|preservation]].

*'''[[Compatibility_layer|Compatibility/translation layers]]''' allow software written for one operating system to run on a different OS, often by translating system calls made by an application to their equivalent calls in the host operating system.

*'''[[Wrappers]]''' is a reimplementation of a library, where the goal is to substitute the original API with a better-supported interface~~. It works as a drop-in replacement for the original library, since a lot of software usually bundled it as-is without any fine-tuning~~. Wrappers are most common for proprietary interfaces that are either abandoned or otherwise platform-specific.

*'''[[Wrappers]]''' is a reimplementation of a library, where the goal is to substitute the original API with a better-supported interface. Wrappers are most common for proprietary interfaces that are either abandoned or otherwise platform-specific.

*'''Sandboxing''' creates a restricted environment for running applications on your Host operating system. Within this "sandbox," applications can't make permanent changes to your system files or registry.

*'''Docker''' is a containerization platform. It creates isolated containers that share the host operating system kernel but have their own set of files and configurations. Docker is primarily used for deploying and isolating applications, particularly microservices, for development, testing, and deployment purposes.

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 *'''[[:Category:Emulators|Emulation]]''' endeavors to recreate an entire historical architecture. This digital reconstruction seeks to faithfully capture the instruction set, timing behaviors, hardware features and even peripheral nuances of a bygone hardware platform. In years, lots of techniques and other technologies come in useful to emulator development which is mentioned in [[High/Low level emulation#Future Outlook]] section. Thanks to this, emulators achieve impressive levels of [[Frames_per_second|performance]] and compatibility, further unlocking the doors to historical software [[Preservation_projects|preservation]].
 *'''[[Compatibility_layer|Compatibility/translation layers]]''' allow software written for one operating system to run on a different OS, often by translating system calls made by an application to their equivalent calls in the host operating system.
-*'''[[Wrappers]]''' is a reimplementation of a library, where the goal is to substitute the original API with a better-supported interface. It works as a drop-in replacement for the original library, since a lot of software usually bundled it as-is without any fine-tuning. Wrappers are most common for proprietary interfaces that are either abandoned or otherwise platform-specific.
+*'''[[Wrappers]]''' is a reimplementation of a library, where the goal is to substitute the original API with a better-supported interface. Wrappers are most common for proprietary interfaces that are either abandoned or otherwise platform-specific.
 *'''Sandboxing''' creates a restricted environment for running applications on your Host operating system. Within this "sandbox," applications can't make permanent changes to your system files or registry.
 *'''Docker''' is a containerization platform. It creates isolated containers that share the host operating system kernel but have their own set of files and configurations. Docker is primarily used for deploying and isolating applications, particularly microservices, for development, testing, and deployment purposes.