Talk:Server emulator
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[edit] List of server emulators?
Is shardwire.org dead? It has been down for some time. Any other up to date list of emulators? --Agamemnon_god 03:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, shardwire.org is dead. Mifune has moved on to other things. Emulator Resource has taken its place --Celeron ER 03:45, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
- Again PLEASE use innerwiki links in wikipedia. Its the sense of an encyclopedia to primary relate to itself! Do not revert prior to discuss here, why external links are better than external. --06:47, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Consensus on opening sentence
Just to report, after an long (off-wikipedia) discussion the new opening sentence is now a consus, now seen valid from all discussing sides. Due to this consus all discutants feel the "critism of the term" section no longer needed. As I've also a lot of other things to worry about than server emulations, I will in future now with this also leave this page for other community edition. Jestix 21:29, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The main arguments towards the consensus are:
- the term is widely used in MMOG community. (this can be backed up with a lot of links, on google, on slashdot, on open directories...)
- emulators in the traditional always refered to emulation of hardware, either hardware by hardware, or hardware by software. server emulator therefore violates the traditional understanding of the an (cpu) emulator.
- there is valid concern, that the term may be used with analogous logic to e.g. licq beeing an icq emulator, gaim beeing an aim emulator. Samba being a windows-file-server emulator. and so on. Jestix 21:13, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
- As the main critic of "server emulator" I can confirm Jestix' report of a consensus being reached. So long as it is made known in the opening paragraph that the term is colloquially accepted and widespread, but not technically accurate, then I have no problem with the article and would be willing to contribute to it and improve its quality. Kethinov 00:25, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
Can we now remove the cleanup template? Jestix 21:16, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
- I've removed the cleanup tag, but this article still needs references, so I've added that tag in its place. —Mira 04:38, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
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- The language and grammar in the article is still quite terrible, so I added a copyedit tag. --SevereTireDamage 05:49, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

