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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. 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.

  7. 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?

  8. 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.