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by joezydeco 4064 days ago
It's definitely an emulation layer. The original game was written in 6809 assembly language along with talking to custom hardware, some of it in an ASIC as well as an Analog Devices DSP for sound playback.

There's a branch of MAME called PinMAME that emulates this hardware, and that's what Planetary showed in their demonstrations.