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Tage187
11-08-2006, 01:46 PM
A friend of mine is looking into getting a PC emulator but he needs advice on which one to use an wer to find it. I would help him but im a Sega & SNES man myself. Any advice would help a great deal (No Spam!) Thanx:D
Carlrt
11-08-2006, 02:28 PM
A friend of mine is looking into getting a PC emulator but he needs advice on which one to use an wer to find it. I would help him but im a Sega & SNES man myself. Any advice would help a great deal (No Spam!) Thanx:D

can i just ask? what do you mean a PC emulator? do you need a emuloator FOR or the emulator OF a Pc?
Tage187
11-09-2006, 12:34 AM
of a PC. Hes looking for a game called starcraft to go wit it
doowoppdoowah
11-09-2006, 05:59 AM
can i just ask? what do you mean a PC emulator? do you need a emuloator FOR or the emulator OF a Pc?

the guy wants a [console] emulator for pc...or at least thats wut i think he meant
Systemeth
11-09-2006, 09:27 AM
of a PC. Hes looking for a game called starcraft to go wit it

Starcraft is a PC game. It doesn't need an emulator.


Unless he is looking for Starcraft 64, N64 version of the game (which sucks IMO). THEN he'd need an emulator.
Tage187
11-09-2006, 11:28 AM
can u not emulate PC games? Im a total newbie on PC emulation so i havent got a clue.
But if ya cant il tell em to get the N64 one
Mjshl2
11-09-2006, 04:10 PM
You can Emulate old PC games. You need Dosbox, or M.E.S.S. But Starcraft doesn't need to be Emulated. If he cant get it to work normally, then perhaps he should try right clicking on the .exe and telling it to run in Win 95 Compatability mode. But it should just work, it works for me.
Iconoclast
11-09-2006, 04:12 PM
can u not emulate PC games? Im a total newbie on PC emulation so i havent got a clue.
But if ya cant il tell em to get the N64 oneEmulation, by definition on dictionary.com, is to execute software on a system it was not designed for. Playing an N64 game on your PC using Project64, that is emulation. Playing an N64 game on your Xbox, that is also emulation, as N64 games weren't designed for the Xbox console. But playing an N64 game on your N64...that is not emulation. And running a PC game on your PC is not emulation.

That is why it is impossible to emulate the PC when using the PC is because of the definition of emulation.

You don't need an emulator to play PC games; they should work just like PC games already on your computer afaik.
chaos master
11-09-2006, 06:34 PM
I think if you want to play a game that runs only on a different OS, like DOS or Windows 98, you need either a patch to make it work on XP, or you need to emulate that OS. Well, that's what it seems like.
Mjshl2
11-27-2006, 11:41 PM
I think if you want to play a game that runs only on a different OS, like DOS or Windows 98, you need either a patch to make it work on XP, or you need to emulate that OS. Well, that's what it seems like.

Or right click go to Properties and Click on Windows compatibility mode for whatever Windows version it requires. I had to do this for Devil May Cry 3 for my x64 system. Ive also had to do it with certain Win95 games.