Subject: COMP.EMULATORS.CBM: Emulation FAQ for Commodore 8bit Computers (1/4)
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The FAQ is in eight parts due to its size.
Part 1a and 1b is general information and a list of available emulators.
Part 2a and 2b is questions and answers.
Part 3a and 3b is mostly data.
Part 4a and 4b is basically reviews of various emulators.
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PART 1 - Table of Contents.
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1. Introduction
1.1 What's new this time..
2. What emulators are available?
2.1 C64 Emulator List
2.1.1 C64 Emulators for the Amiga
2.1.2 C64 Emulators for the PC
2.1.3 C64 Emulators for the Atari
2.1.4 C64 Emulators for the Macintosh
2.1.5 C64 Emulators for Unix
2.2 VIC20 Emulators
2.3 C128 Emulators
2.4 PET Emulators
2.5 SID Emulators
2.7 Other utilities & files
2.7.1 Utilities
2.7.2 Data files
(Part 2).
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3. Questions & Answers
3.1 General
3.2 C64S
3.3 PC64
3.4 Other emulator specific questions
(Part 3).
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3.5 How-to... (moved from Appendix B)
1. Running multi-disk games with C64S 1.0c
2. Using VIC-EMU
3. Getting certain games to work
4. Converting between different file formats.
4. A list of ftp sites where emulation programs can be obtained
4.0.1 Site Maintainers
4.0.2 Site IP addresses
4.0.3 WWW info
4.1 Locations of C64 Emulators
4.2 VIC20 Emulators
4.3 C128 Emulators
4.4 PET Emulators
4.5 SID Emulators
4.6 Non-Emulators
4.7 Other utilities & files
4.7.1 Utilities
4.7.2 Data files
5. Emulator File Formats
5.1 C64 Emulators standard files - overview
5.2 Table of supported file formats
5.3 Standard data files - internal formats
5.4 Converting between file formats
6. How to extract the Rom images required by the emulators
6.1 C64 roms - Basic, Kernal & Charset
6.2 1541 rom
7. Other information
7.1 Newsgroups worth reading
7.2 Emulator benchmarks
7.3 Emulator detection
7.4 Other sources of information
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8. Credits
9. Data
Appendices:
A. Reviews of emulators
B. Advertisements
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1. Introduction
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Welcome to the CBM emulation faq! These files cover any program that emulates the features of any of the 8-bit Commodore machines that took the civilized world by storm in the 1980's and still have a huge following today. The C16, C64, C128, VIC, and PET are all covered. This file also covers most of the Frequently Asked Questions that crop up on this FAQ's birthplace and newsgroup, comp.emulators.cbm.
Note that this FAQ has nothing to do with Amiga emulation; try checking the comp.emulators.misc FAQ for information on Amiga emulation.
This FAQ is maintained by Ken Gifford (tsrken@voicenet.com).
You will always be able to get it from these ftp-sites:
ftp.funet.fi : /pub/cbm/faq
frodo.hiof.no : /pub/c64/faq
ccnga.uwaterloo.ca : /pub/cbm/comp.sys.cbm
and at any news.answers site.
Also available via Jim Brain's mailserver. Just send a message to brain@mail.msen.com with a subject line of "MAILSERV" and the following in the body of the message:
send 8-bit-emulation-faq.3.2.p1.txt
send 8-bit-emulation-faq.3.2.p2.txt
send 8-bit-emulation-faq.3.2.p3.txt
send 8-bit-emulation-faq.3.2.p4.txt
You can also obtain the FAQ via world wide web. Use the URLs:
The HTML version of the FAQ is maintained by Adrian Forte (gforte@bgu.edu)
He would like any Commodore related GIFs to enhance the FAQ.
1.1 What's new this time
Now it is time for an update; possibly the last until I head off to university in August. Keep sending your corrections/updates, however, since I'm still actively keeping the FAQ running.
Some new emulators (ALEC64 for one), new versions of Star Commander, a new version of the "whereami" emulator-detection program (thanx to Wolfgang Lorenz), and some new file-conversion utility tables added. (Check section 5.2 for those; they're a lot more complete now.)
I'm getting a Pentium/150 in a few weeks so I will finally be able to run an emulator without skipping frames. :>
-tsr
2. What emulators are available?
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The list of emulators is as comprehensive as possible, with some brief decriptions of what is emulated, and although something may be emulated it may not be 100% compatible with the original. More detailed "reviews", including author's notes, of some of the emulators may be found in the second part of this FAQ.