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Frodo - 4.4.0

Commodore 64 emulator

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	4.4.0
Release Date:	2008-09-27
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	2,103
Downloads (all versions):	13,520

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Product Description:

Frodo/MacOS is an extremely robust Commodore 64 Emulator for the Macintosh. Frodo was developed to reproduce the graphics of games and demos with higher precision than the existing C64 emulators. To that end, Frodo can display raster effects correctly that only result in a flickering mess with other emulators. In addition to the precise VIC emulation, Frodo features a processor-level 1541 emulation that is able to handle about 50% of all fast loaders. There is also a faster 1541 emulation for four drives containing .D64, .X64, .T64, or .LYNX files. Sound (SID) emulation is also provided. Frodo/MacOS includes a single cycle emulator, Frodo SC, that has almost 100% compatibility at the expense of speed.

What's new in this version:

Audio recording no longer stops when emulator is switched to background, provided that the option to keep emulating in background is on. Recording will still stop if the emulator does.
Brushed metal mode is now off by default on new installs, as well as existing installs where users press the Default button.
Fixed an obscure endian bug that resulted in odd window sizes when an emulator preferences file was moved between PowerPC and Intel.
Fixed several minor visual glitches in the Preferences dialog box.
Modified the behaviour of the Quick Freeze function, so that the last ten quick freezes for each game are kept in ~/Library/Application Support/Bannister/(emulator name)/Saved States. You can restore these at any time using the Defrost menu command. Added code to stop the quick freeze and quick defrost keys from being repeated. Thanks to David McCabe for the suggestion.
Replaced custom about box with standard HIAboutBox. Removed option to pause execution when about box is open.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

None

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Options. - Version: 4.3.7, 4/15/2006 01:10PM PST

(2 of 4 users found this comment useful)

bjornnitmo

Frodo is a poor emulator that is short on feature and really not worth bothering with. If you want the most accurate and full featured 64 (and VIC-20, 128, Plus/4 and PET) emulator out there, get VICE (http://www.viceteam.org/) which is completely free. If you want a relatively accurate emulator that is really well integrated with OS X, easy to use and you're willing to pay for it, get Power64 (http://www.infinite-loop.at/Power64/index.html).

Good! - Version: 4.3.5, 6/20/2004 07:25AM PST

Fossils

Freeware? Yes!

... - Version: 4.3.1, 12/25/2003 07:10PM PST

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Arkham

Oh, by the way,"Chibbi", take a look at Christian Bauer's page (you know, the autor of Frodo, I mean, the real one) http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/FR4Readme.html. He candidly says:

Some of the emulation's features:

• Other peripherals: Keyboard and joystick (real joysticks (only under BeOS, Linux and AmigaOS)

• Frodo is freeware. Why pay >$40 for a C64 emulator?

Now, 10+25 is damn close to 40.

As long as we accept to pay "The Macintosh tax", developer will continue to charge us.