So ask your dead to buy you a new DC. A DC costs about € 50,- ~ € 100,- (complete with games, joypads, memory cards, etc) and games are very easy to come by on for instance Ebay. It's a lot cheaper then to buy the new Pentium 2k4 40Ghz and 512 GB RAM. In other words, the emu won't never be able to get 100% compatibility and/or speed on today's machines.
Well, I'm not waiting on Icarus or any DC emulator for that matter. I find it much better to use my DC on my Sony Widescreen t.v. with my Dolby Digital then on my 17" screen and SB Live 5.1 with crappy boxes on it
I am however very interested to see how he did it. How the core works, etc. ie : from a developers point.
To be on-topic about the "hey-dude-I-want-that-freakin-emu-now-you-biatch-so-I-can-play-the-illegal-isoz-for-free-on-my-pc", shoot them. Problem solved :P