As a sort of toy to play with in recognition of old technology, I want to try my hand at writing a kind of emulator similar to an old Macintosh, except using simpler principles.

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If you want to emulate something, what is it you are actually emulating?

Are you are emulating some fictitious computer? If so, does that actually count as emulating?

I want this emulator to run between 500kHz and about 5MHz

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What does that mean? What is it that you are measuring the frequency of?