Can someone help me out with some info?

[General Atarian]

I know I am going to get laughed at: however, here it goes.

 

What is an emulator, what is it used for, and how does it work.

 

Where do you find them, and roughly how much do they cost?

 

Thanks.

 

And thanks for not ragging on me

[Junie]

A Emulator allows you to play the actual game on a PC, for instance Atari games. The actual game is copied straight from the EPROM inside the game case and saved as a file readable by a PC, a BIN file. The games are commonly refered to as ROM's.

 

To play the game you simply download and Install a Emulator program for example PCAE that allows you to play Atari 2600 games.

 

Then you will need to get some ROM's, the game file, of the games you want to play. You can find all the ROM's here at AtariAge. Simply go to the Atari 2600 Rariety Guide type in the game you want and click on the Pac-Man icon in the ROM colummn and download the ZIP file.

 

Unzip the ROM file you downloaded and extract the file to your Emulator game directory. If you use PCAE simply unzip to C:PCAE

 

To save you time from downloading each ROM file indivduially there are places to download tons of them at a time. I don't remember the links, perhaps someone will post them.

[StanJr]

All you need can be found here.