Emulatorlicious

Mom, what's an emulator?

Many of you are already familiar with the concept of emulation, but for those of you scratching your heads in confusion, fear not, for Binky is here to help. The idea behind an emulator is to run one operating system (a console system, in this case) inside of another one. For example, with Nesticle, a popular Nintendo Entertainment System emulator, one could play a game of RC-Pro Am while running Win98, provided they had the cartridge data saved on their hard drive in a "ROM file." There are oodles of emulators available these days, from emulating old arcade games to the Commodore 64. Additionally, some emulators, like SoftPC for the Mac, emulate entire computer operating systems (e.g. Windows).

Bleem is somewhat different than the standard emulator, in that it isn't designed to play saved copies of Playstation games; since the games are on CD, you must use the game CD itself, and not a copy of the data therein. So no more pirating for you, naughty pirate person! That's right! You have to BUY Bleem, and play games that you BOUGHT (or stole from Blockbuster). Also, bleem seeks to improve upon what the Playstation already offers, by providing increased resolution for the games played.

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Let's talk about updates

Before going commercial, Bleem had some wide coverage over the net, at www.bleem.com. As always, progress continues to develop on Bleem, and just recently, version 1.4 of Bleem was released, claiming inproved speed, graphics, and sound. For us, updates like these are fresh new chances to test out the program and games libraries, so we slammed the download button and updated our CD Bleem installation.