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Commodore 64 Emulator For Your Palm Pilot
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 :)"
If your point is that "Palm Pilot" is an outdated name for the devices now known as Palms or Palm Handhelds, then you'll be pleased to learn that the project site doesn't use the term "Palm Pilot."
Before you confuse people, though: the Zire 21, Zire 71, Tungsten E and Tungsten T2 models all have ARM processors and ship with Palm OS 5.x.
Breakfast served all day!
Commodore 64 ethernet card
Commodore 64 web browser
How useful these really are, I don't know. But they exist.
~Philly
PalmApple has been written. My poor Handspring doesn't do it justice, so I really can't speak to performance.
Oregon Trail sold seperately.
The correct terminology is the Palm Computing Platform. That encompasses any device running the Palm OS, including Sony Clie, PalmOne Tungsten and Zire lines, and even old school things like Handera/TRG, and the good old Pilot.
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I've got it on my Nokia 7650. installed and run without any problems. Tested at couple of games and everything looked fine, even the old decompressing flashy screens. It sometimes however slowed a bit down when doing music.
top 11 c64 games that kept me busy for lord knows how many hours when i was 10 years old
Bruce Lee
Archon / Adept
Bubble Bobble
M.U.L.E
California Games
Winter Games
Ghostbusters
Galaxian
Paper Boy
Pitstop 2
Beach Head
That's why I wish there were more emulators for the Sharp Zaurus. The built-in keyboard makes a huge difference, and would be perfect for playing the old Ultima games!
How many more do you want? There are loads of them.
Atari 400/800, PC, Atari ST, C64, Gameboy (orig/color/Advance), Mac, PalmPilot, MAME, MESS, ScummVM, SNES, TRS-80, Genesis, NES, Spectrum, TI85, Wonderswan, Amiga. If they're not at the link above then do a search of some Japanese zaurus sites.
How many more do you want? There are loads of them.
Yeah, I know, but there are all of these caveats. (I know, now I'm just whining.)
For example, a bunch of the emulators require that you run X11 on your Zaurus. Crazy talk. I've never gotten any of the MAME ports to work. The only supported MAME port doesn't work on the 5x00 series. The GBA emulator is astonishingly slow. And, unfortunately, nobody's created (or ported) an Apple II emulator.
So, yeah... there are a lot, but there are lots of things standing in the way.
Paradroid rules!
I still fire my old c64 up once a year or so (just to make sure it works); the first thing I load up is Paradroid.
Why do people keep on porting Frodo? It's the only C64 emulator available for the GamePark 32, too.
To be frank - it's rubbish. The quality of emulation is *far* lower than something like VICE, or CCS64, and this has it's consequences. As a rule, you have to find particular versions of software made for Frodo, because the majority of games out there simply won't load. With something like VICE I've never had a game that wouldn't load on it that wouldn't also fail to load on my real C64.
Surely the superb VICE can't be too difficult to port?