Floppy drive compatibility? What are you talking about?

Flying Mullet is right. The emulators aren't designed to work on specific computers, they're designed to work on specific operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, DOS, Linux, etc.). If it works on the operating system, it will work on any computer that uses the same operating system, provided it has adequate specs (hard drive space, memory, processor speed, video card, etc.). Now, with Windows it can be a little tricky because there are several different families of Windows operating systems. Here's a handy dandy little chart:

DOS:
-DOS
-Windows 3.x

Windows 9x:
-Windows 95
-Windows 98
-Windows 98 SE (Second Edition)
-Windows Me (Milennium edition)

Win32:
-Windows NT
-Windows 2000
-Windows XP
-Windows Server 2003 (if you're running this and need help figuring out an emulator, god help you)

Now, Generally speaking, a program that works on one OS in a family will work on another OS in the family. For example, software designed for Windows 2000 will probably work on Windows XP. However, software designed for Windows 98 might not work on Windows XP. The big exception to this is that Windows 9x is sort of backwards compatible with DOS. A DOS program will most likely work on Windows 95, 98, 98SE, and Me. However, Win32 isn't backwards compatible with DOS.

As far as I know (and I have very limited knowledge of Linux), all Linux systems are compatible, so something written for SuSE should work fine on Red Hat. Just for the record, I have literally 2 weeks of training with Linux, so don't quote me here.

MacOS is a whole different story. I know that up to MacOS 9 the OS was backwards compatible, but OS X (read: ten. If you say "oh ess eks" I will smack you) is not backwards compatible. There are also several different generations of Mac OS X, and I have no clue what the differences are, but I'm willing to bet what works on one will probably work on another.


So what OS do Fujitsu computers run? Is it proprietary or are they x86 based?