There are
2 Commodore 64 emulators for the Acorn, the most well known is the Acorn
RISC OS port of Frodo and FrodoSC, the C64 emulator. It will also run D64
images. Frodo is compiler using the GNU C++ compiler, originally written
by Christian Bauer and ported to the Acorn by Andreas
Dehmel.
Andreas Dehmel
Am Schorn 18
82327 Tutzing
Germany
System
requirements are RISC OS 3, enough RAM for a 1376kB wimpslot and a lot
of processing power. StrongARM is needed for 100% emulation speed with
sound (Frodo), though it still runs on my A5000. StrongARM desperately
needed for FrodoSC. Minimum spec A5000 (Frodo: 20-40% speed). The reason
for the slowness, is that it is written in C++ , so for any real purpose
it is Risc PC only. There is full sound emulation, even on A5000!
Source code available from the superb Frodo
homepage. It can be tricky getting Frodo to run, particularly if you're
nor familiar with the C64 method of running programs, so I've written a
quick step-by-step guide for how to get it running.
While Frodo runs in the desktop, the palette is incorrect in the faster 16 colour modes, I am grateful to Steve Robb, who has provided a palette file (as well as a load of screenshots) in order to get the correct C64 colours in jsut 16 colours. The screen shot above is of Elite, and the one below, is of the Last Ninja, both running under Frodo v4.1 on a RISC PC.
Frodo Speed Rating: ARM 3 - too slow, ARM 6 - Slow, ARM 7 - Slow, StrongARM - Perfect, StrongARMo - Perfect
There is a commercial C64 emulator from the German company Pulse Computer,
who are now selling Denys Bogatz's C64 emulator, named BreadBox64 (after
the C64's nick name - it looked like a breadbox!?!), this was last updated
in January 1996, and although a lot faster than Frodo, does not run in
the desktop environment. The demo seemes to have fairly decent sound emulation
and runs the demos supplied with it admirably, unfortunately it seems there
is no way to return to the desktop from inside the emulator. There is a
demo version of BreadBox64, downloadable below.
Am Fröschlanger 15
83512 Wasserburg
Germany
Phone: +49 08071 52921
BreadBox64 Speed Rating: ARM 2 - Slow, ARM 250 - Perfect, ARM 3 - Perfect.
Emulators:
Frodo
v4.1 (329Kb) ZIP archive
Frodo
Homepage - superb page with loads of info
Frodo step-by-step guide (1Kb) Text file
Frodo Speedup tips by Steve Robb(1Kb) Text file
Frodo Screenshots & Palette file (98Kb)
ZIP file - some great screenshots of v4.1 on a RPC, and a decent palette
file.
BreadBox64
Demo
BreadPatch
(22Kb) ZIP archive - a patch for the Breadbox which fixes some bugs
and gives the program kernel-IO
D64FS
- an image filing system for C64 images, by Andreas Dehmel
Software:
C64 software
from ftp.funet.fi
Games from arnold.hiof.no
ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/
Recommended software:
Creatures 2, Monty On The Run, Little Computer People, Impossible
Mission, Katakis/Denaris, Bubble Bobble, Thrust, Elite Wizball, Slicks,
Dizzy 3