Nintendo originally planned to enable backwards compatibility, but the 16 bit version was more different from the 8-bit version than they were initially lead to believe, so they never quite got it working at the time, at least not as a plug and play solution. The SNES used an updated 16 bit version of the 8-bit 6502 in the NES. I think that's also more or less what's going on with the NES "emulator" in the OP.
Ironically, an Amiga was actually better at running Mac software than a comparable Mac. The differences were mostly that the Amiga had a bunch of extra dedicated hardware for stuff like graphics and sound that the Macs lacked. They were both Motorola 68000 based computers.
The Mac OS thing wasn't really emulation so much as just running software written for a specific CPU on the same CPU.
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