[illys]

I understand your feeling: I have a vague uneasy feeling when I see DOSbox or other emulations running. It is a great achievement to allow legacy software to remain alive and executable... But still it seems fake. Nothing to do with the real software running on real antique hardware.

[whateveryousayw]

Pretty irrational honestly. The input and output devices make more of a difference than digital software being emulated or not. I'd rather play old arcade games in an emulator connected to a CRT arcade monitor than real arcade PCBs connected to an LCD using some scaler. The former is going to be a more authentic experience.

[bullen]

I think it's related to latency. There is no way to fake low latency and for that you often need the complete chain of hardware.

I'm the opposite to you though, rather have an original C64 on modern capture (low latency GV-USB2) and (S)NES classic controller input.