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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. Addictive arcade games for the palm at last? by Circuit+Breaker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I still play (emulated) C64 games on my PC - they're lots of fun, and are very addictive, though somewhat lacking in the graphics department.

    I find it strange that the Palm, and generally all modern PDAs and cell phones have 20 times as much power as the old C64 in every measurement, yet most of the games suck.

    1. Re:Addictive arcade games for the palm at last? by fm6 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's a lot more than 20 times, I think. But who's going to write good games for the platform? All the first-rate designers are targeting Gameboy.

  2. Emulators all around... by RevAaron · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is the big deal about this? It is somewhat of note on PalmOS, where creating emulators is a lot harder than on WinCE or Linux, because of POS's architecture.

    On WinCE (PocketPCs) and Linux PDAs, there are a ton of good emulators, and for a number of systems, more than one. Off the top of my head, i know I've used on WinCE: GameBoy, SNES, NES, MAME, C64, and NeoGeo.

    While there aren't as many, there certainly are a handful of emulators for PalmOS, although I have only used the good Liberty GB emu.

    So why post this? Should we start posting when any PalmOS package is released, like it is some big event? It may be of interest if it were the first emulator for PalmOS, or the fist C64 emulator for a PDA- but it isn't. And it certainly is not anything exceptional or of note, although my kudos goes to the developer, it is good to see people pushing the limits of PalmOS 5 and under.

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    Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
  3. Unreal by JoeCommodore · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Problem with most emulators is they aren't as much fun as the real thing (all emulated sound, display, speed, controllers, keyboard). I believe all fall short by not emulating paddles.

    Most of my Commodore 64 stuff I do uses special utility cartridges, and a floppy disk drive or two. Without a true keyboard it limits it more.

    Though playing some games like the atarisoft, Legacy of the ancients or Fort Apacalypse does hold some appeal.

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    "Enjoy what you're doing! If it becomes drudgery, you're doing it wrong!" - Jim Butterfield
  4. Nope. Not for me. by JK+Master-Slave · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The people who put out things like this need to think further about their target audience. People like me have PalmOS 3.0 devices running on 68K processors. The 'suits' who buy a new PalmOS device every year have the new thingies. But they're not the folks who will be interested in something like this.

    Oh well.