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frodo-4.1bp10

Commodore 64 emulator

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Description

Frodo is a freeware C64 emulator for BeOS, Unix, MacOS, AmigaOS, Win32 and RiscOS 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 three flavours: The "normal" Frodo with a line-based emulation, the improved line-based emulation "Frodo PC", and the single-cycle emulation Frodo SC that is slower but far more compatible. In addition to a precise 6510/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. The current OpenBSD port does not support a joystick. Important: when sound is available, don't use `limit speed', as sound output will pace the emulator automatically, whereas `limit speed' will interfere and produce garbled output.

Package information

Ports path
emulators/frodo
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org>
Categories
emulators, games, x11/tk, lang/tcl
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64, m88k, sh

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