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              <p><font color="#0000FF"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000CC">volume 
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        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0022A8"><b><a target="" href="../../columns.1"><font size="-1">From 
          the Mouth of Madness</font></a><font size="-1">:</font></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+3" color="#0022A8"><br>
          Emulator 64</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+3" color="#0022A8"><font size="+1"></font></font></p>
        <p align="RIGHT"><font color="#804000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By 
          Jason &quot;<a target="" href="mailto:jason@loonygames.com">loonyboi</a>&quot; 
          Bergman</font></b></font></p>
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        <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Here's the other 
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        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Okay, now that that's out 

          of the way, let's talk emulators.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Here's the hard, cold facts: 
          a lot of those classic games I grew up playing are never going to be 
          re-issued. I like <b>Pac-Man</b> as much as the next guy, but what about 
          obscure titles like <b>Adventure</b>, that are more important to me 
          on a sentimental level? Nobody in their right mind is ever going to 
          put that out again, and I'm not holding my breath for a 3DFX enhanced 
          sequel. :)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In cases like that, you need 
          emulators. But there are plenty of other examples. </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Emulating current systems 
          is a different issue entirely. As I mentioned last week, i think the 
          true excellence of UltraHLE lies in its code. It's a brilliant technology 
          demonstration. How psyched do you think 3DFX was at UltraHLE? How about 
          Intel? Man, you can say all you like that your desktop computer's more 
          powerful than a console, but until you can out-play them, nobody's going 
          to believe you.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Case in point: at the MacWorld 
          expo, Steve Jobs (a personal hero, admittedly) couldn't contain himself 
          as he showed off that PlayStation emulator running on a G3. </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I do think the world of emulators 
          is due for another big stir...the PlayStation emulator <a href="http://www.bleem.com">Bleem</a> 
          is on the virge of release, and early reports say that it's scary just 
          how well it runs games. The Connectix emulator is hitting the shelves 
          now, and Sony's getting pretty peeved.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Let's be sure to remember 
          the difference between say...MAME, and UltraHLE in all of this. Just 
          because a few people are abusing emulation (and I don't lump the programmers 
          in there, just the people stealing software) doesn't mean the whole 
          concept's bad. Laugh all you like, but remember...some of us still want 
          to be able to play the <b>Smurfs</b> Colecovision game (one of the most 
          underrated games of all time) without having to pull that out of the 
          bins and dust it off.</font></p>
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        <p align="RIGHT"><i><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">- 
          Jason &quot;loonyboi&quot; Bergman is the editor-in-chief for <b>loonygames</b>. 
          He can't stop playing <b>Falcon 4.0</b>.</font></i></p>
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