Overview

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ú-queta i cirya ná vanwa!"

Frodo is a multitasking C64 emulator for the BeBox and Unix systems and the world's first C64 emulator not bearing a "64" in its name. :-) (No, it has absolutely nothing to do with frodo.hiof.no, that's a pure coincidence.)

Frodo was developed to reproduce the graphics of games and demos better than the existing C64 emulators. Therefore Frodo has relatively high system requirements: It should only be run on systems with at least a 68060/PowerPC/Pentium. But on the other hand, Frodo can display raster effects correctly that only result in a flickering mess with other emulators.

In addition to the precise VIC emulation, Frodo features a processor-level 1541 emulation that is even able to handle about 50% of all fast loaders. There is also a faster 1541 emulation for four drives in .d64/x64 disk images or directories of the host system.

Frodo runs on these systems:

BeBox with BeOS 1.1d7
Unix systems with X11R6 or Linux/SVGAlib

The program is not a 100% emulation (is there such?), the main missing things are:

Only line-by-line raster effects possible
No filters in the SID emulation
No RS232 emulation
No printer emulation
No emulation of a REU (RAM expansion unit)
No emulation of 1541 jobcodes $d0 and $e0
No snapshots possible

But the next version is coming real soon now... :-)