Commodore 64 Emulators for Linux?
I know, I know… Vice.
The thing is, there is some things I am happy with Vice, some things not so much.
Frodo at one stage had a Linux build (very old), that does not work very well on modern graphics. The developer was at one stage working on a more modern SDL version…, but again ancient history.
CCS64 used to be my favourite emulator that has in fact had a recent release, but chances of them going open source or supporting Linux I would rank as nil.
Some other projects that were mentioned on C64 Wiki that sound like they had intentions of supporting Linux look dead in the water. If anyone has experience of running a Linux build of any of these in the last 10 years, they can tell me differently.
Most of the development work in emulators seems focused on latter systems. Just wondering if anyone has heard word of anything C64 related?
I love the C64, it was my first computer. I tried a number of emulators years ago and they all seemed to work pretty well, In today’s world of Wayland I have no idea about compatibility. I look forward to hearing from people on this thread too!
I have tried many of them in the past but I find that VICE works best for me. I have “TheC64” machine which is a kind of replica of the Commodore 64 and it runs SUPER well on basically everything I’ve thrown at it, is very configurable and I find uses some modified version of VICE underneath.
Frodo was a Commodore 64 emulator that I had good memories of back when I used a Mac. Although I thought the PC port was bad, and definitely inferior to some of the other emulators out there.
They were one of the first C64 emulator’s to release on Linux. But guess the creator fell off the map because the code was ancient and still produced output into a small 640x480 box that would not scale.
But development is now going again and they are working on a SDL and GTK release.
The code is available on GitHub.
“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
