Emulator

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An Enmulator is a piece of software that simulates a specific system on a different machine, enabling the user to play games or use other software on a system not originally intended for.

Examples of Emulation

While the Xbox One Backwards-compatibility feature and most of the PlayStation line of consoles' compatibility with older games is made possible through the use professional Emulators, this is mostly an area for enthusiasts. A prominent example is DosBox, a program emulation a DOS PC on modern systems such as Windows, MacOS X, and Linux, thus enabling those systems to play the original Tomb Raider.

There are several emulators for old 8- and 16-bit gaming consoles, too, but as there are no Tomb Raider games for these, this article will ignore them.

Difference to Other Techniques

Emulation normally rebuilds the target system with all its hard- and software components. In this it is inherently different from programs that only provide certain APIs such as Wine, or techniques such as virtualisation, where the target system runs inside of a dedicated container on the same hardware as the host system, sharing its resources.

Tomb Raider Games and Emulators

There are several games playable through emulation. Whether this always legal is a point of dispute. As long as the player owns an original game medium for the target platform, there should be no problems; downloading disk images from the internet is probably illegal, as all Tomb Raider games are still not considered Abandonware or similar and copyrights still apply!

With the correct version of DosBox it is possible to play the Voodoo version of the game, greatly increasing resolution and details.
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