hottrout - 3:10 pm on Nov 4, 2011 (gmt 0)

Thank you, that confirms what I expected. Knowing this, Can I ask why this code

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.com/emulators/%1 [R=302,L]

sucessfully removes the index.php part of the url but the url remains working? Is this down to specific allowances for index.php as a php name?