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- "Ú-queta i yéni avánier alye,<BR>
- ú-queta i cirya ná vanwa!"
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- <STRONG>Frodo</STRONG> is a freeware C64 emulator for BeOS, Unix, MacOS and AmigaOS
- systems and the world's first C64 emulator not bearing a "64" in its name.
- <TT>:-)</TT> (No, it has absolutely nothing to do with frodo.hiof.no,
- that's a pure coincidence.)<P>
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- Frodo was developed to reproduce the graphics of games and demos better
- than the existing C64 emulators. Therefore Frodo has relatively high system
- requirements: It should only be run on systems with at least a
- PowerPC/Pentium/68060. But on the other hand, Frodo can display raster
- effects correctly that only result in a flickering mess with other
- emulators.<P>
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- Frodo comes in two flavours: The "normal" Frodo with a line-based emulation
- and the single-cycle emulation <A HREF="frodosc.html">Frodo SC</A> that is slower but far more
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- In addition to the precise VIC emulation, Frodo features a processor-level
- 1541 emulation that is even able to handle about 95% of all fast loaders.
- There is also a faster 1541 emulation for four drives in .d64/x64 disk
- images, .t64/LYNX archives, or directories of the host system.<P>
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- Frodo runs on these systems:<P>
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- <LI>BeBox or PowerMac with BeOS DR8
- <LI>Unix systems with X11R6 or Linux/SVGAlib (sound only under Linux and HP-UX)
- <LI>68k or PPC Macintosh with System 7.5
- <LI>Amiga/DraCo with 68040/68060, AmigaOS 3.0 and a graphics card (AHI V3 required for sound)
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