Frodo - The free, portable C64 emulator
Frodo is a portable Commodore 64 emulator that runs on a variety of
platforms, with a focus on the exact reproduction of special graphical
effects possible on the C64. It was also the world's first Commodore 64
emulator without a “64” in its name. ;-)
Frodo comes in two flavours: The regular “Frodo” which uses a cycle-exact
emulation, and the simplified “Frodo Lite” which is less compatible but runs
better on slower machines.
NEW! Frodo V4.5
- Note: The snapshot file format has changed. This version of Frodo will
not read snapshot files from earlier versions.
- Added Datasette tape drive emulation (TAP files, not available in Frodo
Lite)
- Added support for banked cartridges (Ocean, Fun Play, Power Play, Super
Games, C64 Games System, System 3, Dinamic, Zaxxon, Magic Desk, Simons'
BASIC, COMAL 80)
- Added ability to auto-start D64/G64/T64/TAP images, cartridges, and C64
BASIC program files by specifying them on the command line
- Unix: Added file type associations to let Frodo start disk/tape image
files, cartridges, and C64 program files from the desktop
- Windows: Fixed some portability problems
- Frodo now also looks in the application directory for the 'Frodo.ui' file
- Added support for integration with VICE automated regression testbench
- Small improvements to CPU and SID emulation
- Use more realistic RAM initialization pattern
Download Frodo V4.5
Download Frodo V4.x Source Code
The source code of Frodo is hosted in a Git repository on GitHub:
Historic Versions of Frodo
What's more retro than running a Commodore 64 emulator? Running the
emulator itself on a retro computer, of course. 8-)
Frodo V4.1 for BeOS/Unix/MacOS/AmigaOS/RiscOS/Windows/EPOC/...
Note: The following ports of Frodo have been contributed by other people,
and most of them have not been tested by me. If you need support for one of
these ports you should contact its respective maintainer.
- Download Frodo V4.1 binary distribution for RiscOS
- Download Frodo V4.1 binary distribution for Windows 95/NT
- Download Frodo V4.1 binary distribution for HP-UX
- E32Frodo: Frodo for EPOC (Nokia 9210, Psion devices, ...)
- Frodo for Mac OS, ported by Richard F. Bannister
- Frodo for the GamePark32 (GP32)
- DreamFrodo: Frodo for the Dreamcast, ported by Tolga Abaci
- Frodo for PalmOS, ported by Johan Forsberg
- Frodo for MorphOS, ported by Ilkka Lehtoranta
- Frodo for the Sony PSP, ported by urchin
- Frodo for Java2 ME, ported by sleirsgoevy
- Frodo for Java2 ME, ported by Simon Kagstrom
- Frodo for the Nintendo Wii, also ported by Simon Kagstrom
- Frodo for the Nintendo DS, ported by Adrian Siekierka
- Frodo for the ODROID-GO, ported by OtherCrashOverride
- Frodo for webOS, ported by Roland Schabenberger
- Frodo for Android, ported by Arnaud Brochard
Frodo V2.4 for AmigaOS
Documentation for the C64
C64 Links
Some C64 Software
Christian Bauer