emulator
noun
em·u·la·tor
ˈem-yə-ˌlā-tər 
1
: one that emulates
2
: hardware or software that permits programs written for one computer to be run on another computer
Examples of emulator in a Sentence
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Pizza Emulators, another Nintendo emulator, disappeared around the same time.
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Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2024
Apple is loosening its App Store restrictions and opening the marketplace up to retro game emulators.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024
The site houses an emulator that connects to the Internet Archive’s record of websites, providing a full computing experience of the World Wide Web of three decades ago.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
Among those changes was the ability for game emulators to operate on its platforms for the first time.
—Emily Price, PCMAG, 7 Apr. 2024
Game emulators have long been banned from iOS, leaving iPhone owners in search of workarounds via jailbreaking or other workarounds.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024
On the Android side of things, controllers can open the doors to games and titles not officially supported in Google's Play Store, including the use of emulators for gaming.
—Simon Nguyen, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
But users are speculating that the company tapped the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, which works on a PC and offers mouse input.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
Suyu was a fork of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo successfully sued, but this isn’t about Nintendo now having the rights to Yuzu’s code — or maybe even Nintendo at all?
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2024
Apple is loosening its App Store restrictions and opening the marketplace up to retro game emulators.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024
The site houses an emulator that connects to the Internet Archive’s record of websites, providing a full computing experience of the World Wide Web of three decades ago.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
Among those changes was the ability for game emulators to operate on its platforms for the first time.
—Emily Price, PCMAG, 7 Apr. 2024
Game emulators have long been banned from iOS, leaving iPhone owners in search of workarounds via jailbreaking or other workarounds.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024
On the Android side of things, controllers can open the doors to games and titles not officially supported in Google's Play Store, including the use of emulators for gaming.
—Simon Nguyen, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
But users are speculating that the company tapped the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, which works on a PC and offers mouse input.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
Suyu was a fork of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo successfully sued, but this isn’t about Nintendo now having the rights to Yuzu’s code — or maybe even Nintendo at all?
—Sean Hollister, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Emulator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emulator. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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