Why Emulate?

So many people have asked my why me and other 'geeks' bother even emulating Windows?

I reply with a smart answer, "Why dont you even bother emulating windows?"

Its an enjoyment. Its like my house, the nicer and more styled my way, the better I work, and the better I feel. Its where I spend alot of my time, and If it isnt the way I want it, im less efficient.

Why bother emulate? Because I enjoy doing something that other people marvel. Its what I call home

OSX is Beautifull. And when It is ported and sold on X86, I'll STILL skin and emulate OSX on my Windows Box, and I'll skin my OSX box too

I just enjoy it.

But the question here is, Why do you Emulate/Skin in Windows?

Voice your opinion, it only helps others understand what we do, and why we do it.

Thanks,

Bill.

#6818

right on bill

i emulate windows to look like another because windows is just ugly. LoL its true i cant stand the default cartoonish look of blue and green on xp.. or the bad default ugly grey style.. think of it as.. im just painting my home and putting up more pictures..

-bolero

#6819

Sure, Bill. The simple answer is because windows looks like ****! And macs, look like beautiful aqua water. But, if I had os x on my intel box, hell no, I wouldn't skin that. OS X looks and feels perfect. Theres no better way and no better looking way than os x right now. The only reason I am emulating my windows machine is because I long for that beauty and perfection and that user friendly interface where nearly anyone can get on it and use it without any guides or instruction. That is what os x posesses and what I try to achieve when emulating windows.

#6823

Originally posted by Jmitch@Dec 22 2002, 05:11 AM

But, if I had os x on my intel box, hell no, I wouldn't skin that. OS X looks and feels perfect.

We'll, thats just me. Skinning make me feel that I accomplished something, and made a difference, and did something that no one else usually does.

But thats just me

#6825

I dont emulate, I stimulate, lol.

I emulate because I like to have a goal. A goal which is very difficult, but possible to achieve. Customizing / Skinning / Emulating is what i do most of my time. I need something to use my time on. If I didnt like to emulate, i would probably be doing nothing, other then surfing the web, and playing games. I can also make my own skins, which helps me get a better understanding of computers, and photoshop, which intern helps me in the longrun with my career plans. Also, its kind of like bragging rights, If i ever have a LAN party, I will see all these green and blue ugly winxp desktops, and mines, which will look bueatiful and everyone will just look at my desktop and be in amazement and stare at my computer, and not the game, and eventually i will win (okay.. maybe not that far..).

I also fully agree with both of you guys.

-Shak

#6826

Short answer, because I can.

I really like how with the right software we can emulate almost anything.

#6833

I make my windows look and appear like OSX cause I love the way mac looks. Ive been using windows machines for years and I ended up buying a mac but got rid of it a few months later cause I was so used to the windows versions of programs I had and others that couldnt work on a mac.

So to make a long story short I emulate cause I want the visiuals of OSX, just not the real OSX

#6834

And thats all we need, a beautifull OS like OSX but compatible with ALL windows apps and games. Windows to me is just more usable than mac, and Im trying to expand my usability of a mac, but its hard to, because I treat every OS like Windows.

#6836

Originally posted by bolero@Dec 22 2002, 04:56 AM

right on bill

i emulate windows to look like another because windows is just ugly.  LoL its true i cant stand the default cartoonish look of blue and green on xp.. or the bad default ugly grey style.. think of it as.. im just painting my home and putting up more pictures..

-bolero

right on Bolero

i emulate windows to look like another because windows is just ugly. LoL its true i cant stand the default cartoonish look of blue and green on xp.. or the bad default ugly grey style.. think of it as.. im just painting my home and putting up more pictures..

-GOKU

if I had os x on my intel box, hell no, I wouldn't skin that. OS X looks and feels perfect.

- I DO have os x, hell no, I wouldn't skin that. OS X looks and feels perfect.

those two people took the words out of my mouth.

#6837

True, Goku,

Leaving OSX as it is is spectacular, but I love to skin. I want to see what I can do. What makes OSX better? Its a GUI like no other. To skin it could possibly mean the end to windows.

Hell No, I wont skin OSX if I actually bought a Mac, but PC's are ment to skin (in my opinion )

Im Just happy with the Emulation turn out, its great. So many people share the same thoughts I do.

#6840

I do it because I enjoy it.

The graphic elements in OS X were created by professional graphic artists and it shows.

While I do like WinXP alot, compared to the beauty of OS X, stock XP looked like a half assed effort at best.

Perhaps MS was trying to cater to the corporate market with XP, but the corporate market does not include *me*.

I do enjoy Apple's refinements in design of their hardware and OS, I do not like their prices.

A fully decked out, top of the line Power Mac dual 1.25GHz G4 with the 23' Cinema Display is like 20,000+ NZD. NZD being New Zealand Dollars. Without the Cinema Display, it's still 10,000+NZD.

There's no way in hell or heaven I would spend kind of cash on a PC. Well, if I was rich, which I'm not, then I wouldn't give it a second thought.

I can put together, and did, a comparable dual AMD based system for about a forth of Apple's price.

I personally feel that if Apple wanted to give MS a real run that they would release OS X-x86. Actually I'm surprised it hasn't been leaked already.

Anyway, just my thoughts and feelings about the subject.

All the best,

Grusic

#6873

I skin for the same reason that everyone else here does. because WINDOWS LOOKS LIKE A PIECE OF BLUE AND GREEN ****.

if I had OSX I'd probably eventually get bored of it's look and tweak it. It's in my blood!

#6874

Windows XP = Toilet Bowl Cleaner Blue and Puke Green.

Just to clear that with you people. Thats the scheme I came up with.

#6882

I spend a lot of time at my computer, it provides me with entertainment and work, computers are my life. people always have a tendency to customize their surroundings I think, wether it be organising your desktop a certain way, or decorating your room in your favourite colours, everyone customizes their environment to a certain extent. when you use a computer as much as I do, the virtual environment, almost becomes a real environment in which you do things, and so you customize that too. I've always customized windows, even before I decided that making it look like OS X was a pretty cool idea, I'm becoming really interested in Apple now, and will be buying a Powerbook G4 soon. I would never have known that OS X existed if I hadn't seen "aqua skins" on windows customization sites. heheh

#6941

Yeah, I cant use a Mac cause of compatablity issues with school software, but I was at a friend's house and he had just bought a dual G4 with the cinema screen and i was taken aback with the way the OS looked and acted, it seemed to react to the user in a different way than anyother OS, it was smoother and more artful

I love OSX and I love the windows compatability, and Windows is just plain UGLY after awhile, its either too colorful or too plain, I like a happy medium

#6990

Windows XP was still a nice difference between win9X. Alot more gui enhancements like transparency and built in themes. I applaud microsoft on thier doing so. But, you'd think they'd do more? I hate downloading apps after apps just to change the look of that painfull blue and green.

Yeah, DalNet Mac'rs are complaining about me trying to emulate mac. I showed a picture of my desktop, and they complained that I was too poor to afford a Mac. HaHaHa... if they only knew bill gates

Although they were impressed...

#7041