Overview

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Frodo is a freeware C64 emulator for BeOS, Unix, MacOS and AmigaOS 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 PowerPC/Pentium/68060. But on the other hand, Frodo can display raster effects correctly that only result in a flickering mess with other emulators.

Frodo comes in two flavours: The "normal" Frodo with a line-based emulation and the single-cycle emulation Frodo SC that is slower but far more compatible.

In addition to the precise VIC emulation, Frodo features a processor-level 1541 emulation that is even able to handle about 95% of all fast loaders. There is also a faster 1541 emulation for four drives in .d64/x64 disk images, .t64/LYNX archives, or directories of the host system.

Frodo runs on these systems:

BeBox or PowerMac with BeOS DR8
Unix systems with X11R6 or Linux/SVGAlib (sound only under Linux and HP-UX)
68k or PPC Macintosh with System 7.5
Amiga/DraCo with 68040/68060, AmigaOS 3.0 and a graphics card (AHI V3 required for sound)