Emulate
Written 57-B27 [2025-09-13], Edited 57-B27 [2025-09-13]
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In its day, the Commodore Amiga had some of the most advanced graphics of a home computer of its day. It was remembered by few, and still fewer cared enough to try running the Amiga’s software in an emulator.
Margaret was one of the few. She didn’t have a physical Amiga, in fact the newest machines in the product line were twice her age at least. But she still wanted to be able to reliably run the emulator and all its basic, simple software.
Basic.
Simple.
Everything had got so complicated. Everything was an abstraction on an abstraction on an abstraction on an abstraction. Nobody could understand
Notes
This was written in 10 minutes during a Joy of Writing meetup.
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