How to detect if an emulator is being used ?

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The topic covers it I guess. Just wondering the best way to detect whether or not something is running on an emulator rather than real hardware ? (in code I mean, obviously eyes would suffice otherwise

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Heh, even putting the aditional comment in brackets didnt stop the almost inevitable responses like this

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Thanks people. Should be enough to do what I was wanting now.

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Coding an emufuxxor? How quaint.

Why not just ask Toni directly, I'm sure he can give you some info as to what virtual devices / registers to check for.

Im not sure what you mean by emufuxxor, but what Im doing isnt exclusively related related to uae. OS4.x and MOS 68k emulation cores are also relevant (but easier to detect).

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Hehe, nothing particuarly secret, I just want to be able to report the hardware that's being run on semi accurately ......... or do I ?   :queue evil laugh:

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It's not too difficult to report physical hardware, just gets a bit trickier to report a host systems hardware when there's emulation involed.

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:(PS:you don't have to thank me for that one, it's a freebie... )

Well that eases my conscience a little as I had no plans to thank you  

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Just to clarify, that was intended as tongue in cheek. Sometimes the lack of tone and/or infliction on forums can make things seem different than intended.

Really though it wouldnt work, the whole point to the excercise for me is to have the computer tell a person what system theyre running the software on. Time (and me releasing it) will make things a bit clearer.

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@Karlos
I know it wasnt intended as such, but that sounds like a challenge to me  
Although just a small part of what Im actually doing it should be an interesting programming excercise