Acorn Gaming: Emulation

EMULATION

Commodore

Three Commodore emulators are available:
Frodo (C64) --- Vice (various) --- Minus 4 (C+4)

Also see the Amiga page for details on Commodore Amiga emulators.

Commodore 64 emulator

Name	Frodo
Author	Andreas Dehmel (dehmel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)
Port of	Frodo, written in C++ by Christian Bauer
Available	The Official Frodo Home Page or Acorn Gaming
Supports	Most games?
Speed	StrongARM: full; A5000: 20-40%
Version	4.1 (as of 29/12/00)

Frodo is a Commodore 64 emulator.

Commodore 64, 128, CBM2, PET and VIC20 emulator

Name	VICE
Author	Andreas Dehmel (dehmel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)
Port of	VICE, written by a team of contributors
Available	Andreas's website; official VICE website; Acorn Gaming
Supports	Most software
Speed	StrongARM: up to 100%; very slow on anything else
Version	1.7 - 1/8/01 (as of 15/8/01)

VICE, short for 'Versatile Commodore Emulator', emulates not just one Commodore machine but several - the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, CBM2, PET and VIC20 to be precise. You need at least a StrongARM with 16Mb of RAM to run this emulator at a useful speed, and be warned that it's a 2.5MB download!

You could also take a look at the official VICE homepage.

Commodore Plus 4 emulator

Name	Minus 4
Author	David McEwen (david@acornemus.freeserve.co.uk)
Port of	Minus 4 by Mike Dailly (Mike Dailly)
Available	David's web site, or Acorn Gaming
Supports	'A lot' of games - .prg format only
Speed	?
Version	0.2 - 19/11/00 (as of 29/12/00)

This is an early beta release so there's currently no front-end and it's not using the latest Windows source, but it's still definitely worth trying out! According to David this is a port of one of the two best Commodore Plus 4 emulators.

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Play arcade games with the Capcom Play emulator from David McEwen, a RISC OS original that's now been updated to version 1.25a.

Multiple Commodore machine emulator VICE upgraded to version 1.7

Full Tek review now online - finally!

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