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First emulated game?
#376747 - 06/09/18 04:54 PM
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Just curious, what was the FIRST arcade game to be emulated? I'm guessing Pacman but I don't know.
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Re: First emulated game?
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#376748 - 06/09/18 05:30 PM
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>what was the FIRST arcade game to be emulated? I'm guessing Pacman but I don't know.
The thread discussing Dave Spicer's Sparcade might have best answers.
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/95000-sparcade/
Sparcade was out maybe just slightly before Nicola S. was developing MAME in 1996 before releasing first version of MAME in spring 1997. My guess is Digital Eclipse doing the Williams games in 1994/1995 before releasing a commercial product for Mac computers in 1995 may have been first emulation.
I recall first seeing Digital Eclipse Williams Games product only for Macs in fall 1995 and I, being an IBM user, was bummed seeing that. Digital Eclipse finally made an IBM version the following year.
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Re: First emulated game?
[Re: gregf]
#376839 - 06/13/18 12:04 PM
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Iirc, the Cinematronics emulator was the first PC based emulator for arcade machine games. I saw screen shots of it running several cine games several months before the earliest test release of Sparcade (or DAScade as it was called initially). Iirc, the earliest version of Sparcade was released in 1994. The Cine emulator was not publicly released until about a year or so after Sparcade.
I can dig out old emails and usenet posts if the exact dates are required.
According to Wikipedia, Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits was released on April 10, 1996 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_Arcade%27s_Greatest_Hits) - which was about 2 years or so after the earliest Sparcade releases (need to check emails / files).
My memory about "Digital Eclipse Williams Arcade" is hazy, but I think Greg is quite right - it was released on Mac first, a year or so before PC.
UPDATE 01: The information here confirms that it was released on Mac first:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Eclipse
1994 Joust Macintosh
1994 Robotron: 2084 Macintosh
1994 Defender
I cannot recall now whether this predated Sparcade, etc (as I said, need to check emails / files).
UPDATE 02: Just searched Google Groups and the earliest post I could find about Sparcade was this one from Oct-1996:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!searchin/comp.emulators.misc/sparcade|sort:date/comp.emulators.misc/MQhcrzpM8Ms/g9I3itOTt3UJ
A reply from me is at the end of the thread. Sure bought back memories ...
Edited by Moose (06/13/18 01:02 PM)
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Re: First emulated game?
[Re: Moose]
#376846 - 06/13/18 09:52 PM
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> Iirc, the Cinematronics emulator was the first PC based emulator for arcade machine
> games. I saw screen shots of it running several cine games several months before the
> earliest test release of Sparcade (or DAScade as it was called initially). Iirc, the
> earliest version of Sparcade was released in 1994. The Cine emulator was not publicly
> released until about a year or so after Sparcade.
>
> I can dig out old emails and usenet posts if the exact dates are required.
>
> According to Wikipedia, Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits was released on April 10,
> 1996 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_Arcade%27s_Greatest_Hits) - which was
> about 2 years or so after the earliest Sparcade releases (need to check emails /
> files).
>
> My memory about "Digital Eclipse Williams Arcade" is hazy, but I think Greg is quite
> right - it was released on Mac first, a year or so before PC.
>
> UPDATE 01: The information here confirms that it was released on Mac first:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Eclipse
>
> 1994 Joust Macintosh
> 1994 Robotron: 2084 Macintosh
> 1994 Defender
>
> I cannot recall now whether this predated Sparcade, etc (as I said, need to check
> emails / files).
>
>
> UPDATE 02: Just searched Google Groups and the earliest post I could find about
> Sparcade was this one from Oct-1996:
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> https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!...Ms/g9I3itOTt3UJ
>
> A reply from me is at the end of the thread. Sure bought back memories ...
Someone could probably go digging around in CAESAR's collection of single-game and multi-game emulators (of which it retains the most *recent* versions) and look through their changelogs to determine which was the earliest (or if no changelog, wayback their stated homepage) for further fact checking.
http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulators.php?id=single
http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulators.php?id=multi
http://caesar.logiqx.com/php/emulators.php?id=commercial
You're probably right, though.
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Re: First emulated game?
[Re: Moose]
#376898 - 06/15/18 05:16 PM
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> UPDATE 01: The information here confirms that it was released on Mac first:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Eclipse
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> 1994 Joust Macintosh
> 1994 Robotron: 2084 Macintosh
> 1994 Defender
I'm positive this predates any hobbyist arcade emulators. 1994 on the PowerMac was the first time and place you could reasonably do it; PCs had to wait a few years for the average higher-end user to at least have a 486/66 if not a Pentium.
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