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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.

  2. 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

    --
    Omnis amans amens
  3. 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.

  4. Sound and many games! by Danathar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does the emulator support the C64's sound?

    And...

    The reason this is such a big deal is because the low resolution of the C64 looks just fine on a small screen. It looks like crap on a VGA monitor because most games of that era were designed with TV in mind. Many of those games looked better because the black line on every other scan line was a sort of "anti-aliasing" which made many of those games look nice.

    Also, there were MAJOR titles released for the C64 that would NEVER be writing for the Palm. Like the Ultima Series (up to Ultima 6...I think?).