Spectrum & C64 emulators

[RMK305]

I was looking on Aminet for Spectrum and C64 emluators but there are absolutley loads of them. Can anyone point me in the direction of an easy to use one with a GUI and playable in a window on WB if possible? I'm running an A4000, Warpengine 40MHz and a CV64 3D.

Thanks,

Robert

[murple]

I think there's an Amiga version of VICE. No idea if its as full featured as the Linux or other versions of VICE, or if an Amiga is robust enough to run a good emulator, but that's the one i'd try.

[Azryl]

Magic64 plays games well on a moderately accelerated Amiga, so yours should be ok for fullframe rate emulation of the Commodore 64.

I use magic 64 on my Amiga3000 with 68040@40mhz

Az

[bnice]

Hi,

A quick look around the net for you.. commodore 64 http://frodo.cebix.net/ frodo still seems to be available and as for the spectrum  http://aminet.net/misc/emu and search for spectrum the one called spectrum-1.7 is the one I use to use back in 1994 and ran at speed on stock A3000 030/25 so you should be right. Ok here is a good list of spectrum emulators available http://www.tjornov.dk/spectrum/faq/emu_amig.html

[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.

[Britelite]

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.

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.

[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.

[RMK305]

Thanks for the replies. I'll start off with the Spectrum emulators and see how they perform. Shame MagiC64 needs a key file.