Overview
"Ú-queta i yéni avánier alye,
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... :-)