Posted By
Chicken
on 2007-03-28
19:22:15
 |  Re: Beta version of new emulator is now available
During the last couple of days, I gave this some thought, too.
First of all, I think names that include "emu" are a nit unimaginative boring  And I have to admit that even if I like YAPE, I don't like the name that much.
Greek mythology is always good for names but sometimes there's not much connection between the godess/god and that what the program does.
Personally, I like plays on words... if they are good And for a plus/4 emulator I would definitely play with the "4". Though, I'd go for the spelled out FOUR because the 4 has been overused in many product names.
My first choice was "FOURCE", pronounced just like "force". But after some quick research I saw that Microsoft has action figures called "SOURCE FOURCE" :/
Pretty much all four-whatever names have been used by some kind of musical quartett but that shouldn't keep us from finding a nice name.
Anyway... I started with FOURMULA because an emulator is kinda like a "magic formula" (ok, maybe not but to me it's still magic to see plus/4 stuff running on PCs).
However, FOURMULA sounded a bit dull... there's still something missing. Though, I liked that it contains "MUL" as in eMULator. So the next step is... FOURMULATOR
I'm undecided... I still like "FOURCE". It might be more powerfull and doesn't have that "Terminator"-taste to it. And I wouldn't spell it "4mulator"... I'm a typography buff and for various reasons I'd rather use "fourmulator" (not capitalized, I did so above just emphasize the names) plus a logo
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