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Title: Looking for a good C64 emulator
Post by: amigakidd on May 31, 2008, 02:32:23 PM

Unlike the Amiga, the Commodore 64 has so many emulators to choose from? Which one is better. I plan to run every Commodore system made alongside with my WinUAE so I can complete my collection of commodore computing emulation.

Is VICE the best one?
I also plan to use it with GEOS and Contiki.

Title: Re: Looking for a good C64 emulator
Post by: KThunder on May 31, 2008, 02:40:19 PM

cant say which is better since ive never used vice. ive always used frodo or lately ccs64

Title: Re: Looking for a good C64 emulator
Post by: DBAlex on May 31, 2008, 04:49:53 PM

I like VICE or VICE Plus (http://viceplus.wiki.sourceforge.net/ (http://viceplus.wiki.sourceforge.net/))

But to be fair I haven't tried many others...

The only thing I really use a C64 emulator for is messing around with BASIC...  :-)

Title: Re: Looking for a good C64 emulator
Post by: foleyjo on May 31, 2008, 06:22:25 PM

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amigakidd wrote:
 I plan to run every Commodore system made alongside with my WinUAE so I can complete my collection of commodore computing emulation.

Doesnt Vice also emulate the C128 C16 and Vic20??
If so then this is the one you should get

Title: Re: Looking for a good C64 emulator
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on May 31, 2008, 07:41:17 PM

Vice is fine. FRODO is slow (but maybe more compatible, but I haven't found any games which are incompatible with Vice)
Make also sure you get GameBase64, which makes it much easier and fun to get your games running.

Title: Re: Looking for a good C64 emulator
Post by: a1200 on May 31, 2008, 08:50:27 PM

Is there any 8-bit computers that can be emulated on classic Amiga? Running C64 games on an Amiga or better still Atari 800 games, would have a kind of irony with it...

Title: Re: Looking for a good C64 emulator
Post by: baxyp on May 31, 2008, 08:53:44 PM

There is AmiMSX, which emulates MSX1&2 computers. It works pretty well when you have 030 or better.

Title: Re: Looking for a good C64 emulator
Post by: a1200 on May 31, 2008, 08:58:24 PM

@baxyp

Cool! I have a 030 driven A1200, it would be cool to see it running as an MSX machine. I have just looked at the VICE page and see there is an Amiga version too, so I will have to try that too.