What’s a slot machine emulator?
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First
You are new in the field of emulation, and you know nothing about it, this section is made for you, you will be able to understand what emulation is and how it works.
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What is it?
Slot game slot machine emulator is a software program whose role is to reproduce the behavior of machine that is not available anymore, create a different environment, or behave like an obsolete computer.
A slot machine emulator is a small piece of software that turns your PC or MAC computer into another computer, a console or an arcade terminal.
So you can play Megadrive or Super Nintendo on your computer with a slot machine emulator. The reverse also works, you can emulate a Commodore (Amiga computer) on a Dreamcast.
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How Does it Work?
In fact, each Console or computer has several electronic components, which form a printed circuit board. The purpose of the slot machine emulator is to transcribe this circuit on a software.
It uses part of the microprocessor and RAM and virtually recreates cassette or diskette players on the hard drive. In the case of video games, slot machine emulators are used to run games from old consoles on newer models or computers. Many nostalgic sites offer free downloads of slot game slot machine emulator for Windows or Linux.
To do this, it is necessary to re-write the “behavior” of each of its components. These assembled programs behave like the original machine; the emulated components are “virtual”. So you can emulate any system or machine. However, not everything is possible, as your computer may be limited to the levels of its capabilities.
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How do we install it?
Often the slot machine emulator is a zip file of the order of 200 to 1000 Kb. for this you need to unpack the ZIP archive in a directory so you will find it in the majority? Case:
* one or more files with extension.EXE => this is usually the slot machine emulator itself.
* one or more files with extension.TXT => these are documentation on all that concerns the slot machine emulator (notice, copyrights, novelties)
* one or more files with extension.DLL => these are running libraries of the slot machine emulator (do not touch or delete these files))
* one or more files with extension.INI or CFG => these are the configuration files of the slot machine emulator (you can modify them with Notepad, but it is rather reserved for connoisseurs)
Note: If the slot machine emulator you downloaded is a Setup, you have to run it by double-clicking on it and follow the instructions as in standard software.
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Go Further
A slot machine emulator is rather difficult to achieve if you don’t know a minimum of programming knowledge. But the most complex thing is to know the correct operation of the machine you want to emulate. There are very few manuals on the operation of the various electronic components (professional secrecy is required). That is why the few programmers who would like to embark on this adventure reject many areas.
However you can find documentation on the analysis of certain components whose authors have made public the documentation. Also some slot machine emulator authors make public the sources of their software which allows modifying the characteristics.