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How do you explain emulation to your Mom?
Vigo:
Analogies can backfire. Even if someone thinks they get it after an analogy, they often really don't.
I just over simplify things. Something like: The old video games are downloaded to a computer, and then you use an "old video game reader program" to play the games.
Mario:
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How about:
Just like polyjuice potions allow one person to mimic another, confusing other people to interact with them just as if they are the person being mimiced, an emulator allows one computer to mimic another computer and confuses that other computer's software into running on it.
However, muggles probably wouldn't know about polyjuice potions, so this may not work.
Mario
gabe:
I don't.
She is satisfied in knowing that there are a couple arcade cabinets in my basement. Beyond that she doesn't care, so I don't bore her with the details.
Le Chuck:
I once made this mistake of opening up my cab and showing visiting relatives the guts, the wiring, the coin mech... then I exited out of my frontend and took my parents into the actual emulators. About 10 minutes into a speal about different rom versions I noticed I was alone in the room. Oddly enough my father couldn't wait for me to pop the playfield on my Paragon Pinball though. I'm in the camp of "don't do that" now.
SavannahLion:
I don't bother explaining it to them. I just tell them it plays X and Y and that usually satisfies the muggles. If they press for more details (rare) I just tell them a computer inside pretends to be X or Y.
I tend not to socialize with like-minded geeks in RL because most of them in my age bracket do that damn Comic Book Guy routine and I end up kicking them out anyways.
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