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<H1>Overview</H1>
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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>
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>
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
compatible.<P>
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>
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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