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Backyard Baseball's return to modern PCs may look like a simple case of emulation, but it was much more complicated than that.

I had the 3-pack with the original football, baseball, and soccer PC games. Put countless hours into them as a kid, so I’m super excited for these rereleases

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    1•5 days ago

    “It’s kind of hard to put a specific word on it, like emulation. It’s not quite emulation,” Simon says. “It’s more that we’re running the original game, and we’re building an environment around that original game where it thinks it’s running on a computer from 1996 running Windows 95, even though it isn’t.”

    Wrapper. Like WINE.