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by account42 1116 days ago
Emulation doesn't mean just hardware emulation even if some die-hards might want it to. Certainly not in colloquial usage.

ScummVM in particular started out as an interpreter for SCUMM bytecode, emulating the original interpreter that ships with the games. It's as much as an emulator for those games as WinE is a Windows Emulator - that is, saying so will make some people upset but being upset does not make them right.