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Commodore 64 Emulator For Your Palm Pilot

Posted by timothy on from the needs-aztek dept.

Ridgelift writes "PDALive's got an article on a port of Frodo, the free Commodore 64 Emulator for your Palm Pilot. I can't wait to get this running so I can play M.U.L.E. on the road!" Update: 12/01 02:41 GMT by T : An anonymous reader writes "I thought I should point out that there's also a really great Atari ST emulator for Palm called 'CaSTaway.' You can find it here. It's free and released under GPL :)"

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  1. Pocketses by Raindance · · Score: 4, Funny

    "... Frodo, the free Commodore 64 Emulator for your Palm Pilot"

    Lends a new meaning to 'What hass it gots in its pocketses??'

    RD

  2. Not bad, but... by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd like an Apple II emulator for my Palm Pilot so I can play Oregon Trail on long road trips and get myself thinking bad thoughts.

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    The coolest voice ever.
  3. All right! by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Frodo is a highly portable program and currently has versions for Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix, Playstation, Dreamcast and Symbian telephones to mention just a few.

    You know, I never felt my Dreamcast was fully functional unless I could program BASIC on it.

    Move over, Soul Calibur, GOTO's coming!

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    The coolest voice ever.
  4. Zire71 by danormsby · · Score: 5, Funny
    I've just installed it on my Zire 71 and it works a treat. It has an Arm processor and Palm OS 5.2.1.

    Sure does take me back. Once again I can do...

    10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
    20 GOTO 10

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    Omnis amans amens
    1. Re:Zire71 by xmedar · · Score: 4, Funny

      It takes me back too, to the days when PEEK and POKE were innocent words to my young mind...

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      Any sufficiently advanced man is indistinguishable from God
  5. Re:Emulators all around... by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember decades ago, back around 2004, when they only had Pentium 4s? Well, now that we have portable Beowolf clusters providing 5 gigateraflops running in our communicator implants, we can look back and laugh. Heck, now I have so much computing power embedded in my sinuses I can go back in time and post on Slashdot in 2003, before it was bought by AOL.

  6. Takes Out All The Fun!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Its just going to take all the fun out of watching the tv for an hour, looking at all the prety colors while the tape loads!!!

  7. Palm Pilot games - palm games by ElderKorean · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Frodo, the free Commodore 64 Emulator for your Palm Pilot. I can't wait to get this running so I can ..."

    ... play the old game of Stroker.

    Never had a C64 myself, but saw this once on a friends computer and pissed myself laughing.

  8. Re:Frodo requires an ARM processor and OS 5.0 by BenjyD · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course porting will be easy. I mean, how much difference can an order of magnitude performance difference and a change in endianess make?

  9. I want to run .. by Stavr0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Frodo C64 emulator for Palm Pilot
    ... on CoPilot emulator for Windows 9X
    ...... on a VMWare session for Linux

    Just because I can.