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Re:OpenFPGA. The future of video game preservation by Gormo on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:11PM (#39348933)
Not really. And I'm not sure the concept of virtualization makes sense when applied to hardware in the first place.

The FPGA is actually implementing the hardware. It's like using a newly manufactured edition of the original.

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Re:OpenFPGA. The future of video game preservation by fourfour3 on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:44PM (#39349402)
The FPGA is used to implement an approximation of the original hardware’s functionality - not a perfect clone of the original hardware itself, which means they have their own unique bugs and inaccuracies compared to the original designs.

I think “emulation” fits as a reasonable description of this, personally - at least as something an average person will understand.

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