Spectrum & C64 emulators

[drHirudo]

For C64 emulation MagiC64 is the best for 68K Amiga. Vice is slow. Frodo is another option, but it is not that fast. MagiC64 requires a keyfile, which is an obstacle, because you can no longer register it. Last and most unpopular option is the A64 package. It is incredibly fast for C64 emulator on Amiga, but the emulation is not accurate. It is good for BASIC programing and utilities, but for games it is no choise.

For Sinclair emulation one of the best is ZXAM - plays on window and is very fast, but emulates only the 48K Spectrum with AY chip. ASp is newer, more developed, emulates the 128K Spectrum but is slower. For the Sinclair if you need TRDOS emulation to play the newest games from Russia, you can try CBSpeccy, but it disables the multitasking and plays on fullscreen. Speculator is the fastest of them all, but does not have that many AREXX scripts as ZXAM.

[drHirudo]

Britelite wrote:
There aren't really any GOOD c64-emulators that run at decent speeds on a 68k-based Amiga, as the emulators require a lot of horsepower.

MagiC64 is very good. On 68060/50MHz it reaches 100% speed without frameskip. I played it on A4000/040/25MHz/AGA with acceptable speed with frameskip. Too bad the author is not developing it anymore, and did not fix the diskloading incompatibilities which it have. Else it is perfect.

But for spectrum there's an old port of X128 available, which was an awesome spectrum emulator that emulates the regular 48k and 128k spectrums, and even emulates some of the popular russian clones. It ran at full speed on a 060/66, so I'd guess it runs fairly well even on a 040-equipped Amiga.

X128 is slow C port. ASp is written in Assembler and much faster, but works nice on AmigaOS 4.x too. I use it regulary. ASp does not have disk support though.