1. A method, comprising: receiving data at a program running on a host computer, wherein the data is received from a hardware peripheral device via a device driver of an operating system that is also running on the host computer, wherein the hardware peripheral device is not a hardware emulator configurable to emulate functionality identical to that of another hardware peripheral device, and wherein the data is received by the host computer at a first rate; the program buffering the data; and the program transmitting the data to a software simulation running on the host computer, wherein the software simulation is of an electronic device designed to interact with the hardware peripheral device, and wherein said transmitting is at a second rate slower than the first rate.