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Regarding strength(ELO) measurement using emulators. It should be ok for most of them, but I would recommend to always use real chess computers.
Possible reasons against it:
- inaccurate cache emulation (ARM, 68020 and up)
- inaccurate wait states (example: Mephisto Glasgow)
- inaccurate clock divider (example: Fidelity Elite series)
Of course you are right. But most of those problems we can check by using testsuites. We know how much time the original computers needed for them and can compare it to the time the emulation needs. But yes... before an engine is used for our ELO list we should be sure, that there is not too much difference between the original and the copy. Nevertheless... for some computers there will be no other way. It is very difficult to get a really working Novag Savant for example. And it will not become easier in the next years...