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MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« on: January 11, 2004, 12:46:45 PM »
The creater of MagiC64 has now stopped developing this great emulator (i emailed him about the kefile and he offered it to me). Would anyone be interested in carrying one develo[ing this great emulator?
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2004, 02:06:53 PM »
It need a fast Amiga but Frodo is a pretty good emulator and it's free.
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2004, 02:15:35 PM »
Is the source code in C or C++?
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2004, 02:20:51 PM »
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Is the source code in C or C++?


Amstrad CPC BASIC :-o :lol:
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2004, 02:29:46 PM »
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It need a fast Amiga but Frodo is a pretty good emulator and it's free.


Right on both points, the only problem being that all the Amiga ports of it are very poor.
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2004, 02:51:40 PM »
Magik64 is really fast, its usable even slower amigas and it's easy to use.

Frodo isn't fast I can't play c64 games with it, is't far too slow.
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2004, 03:00:19 PM »
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Frodo isn't fast I can't play c64 games with it, is't far too slow.


With some tweaking I was able to play many games at an acceptable speed on an 060/66.
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2004, 03:44:45 PM »
The problem with MagiC64 is that AFAICR it is mostly written in 68k asm and it is very dependent on the native chipsets. Porting that to MOS or AOS4 isn't really viable.

Frodo is OK on systems that are fast enough (most classic Amigas are not), and is certainly easier to port to AOS4 (it already has a MOS port I believe, though I could be wrong).

The other alternative would be to port VICE, which is by far the best C64 emulator around at the moment, but there may be issues with that.
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2004, 04:04:52 PM »
VICE rules. We desperately need Amiga & Amigoid ports of it..
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2004, 05:21:29 PM »
>Frodo is OK on systems that are fast enough (most classic Amigas are not), and is certainly easier to port to AOS4 (it already has a MOS port I believe, though I could be wrong).

Anyone can provide an url for mos port of frodo?
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2004, 05:51:39 PM »
Someone should port frodo a second time
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2004, 06:53:00 PM »
This is the official homepage of Frodo:

http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/FRMain.html

Anyone interested should check.
And i remember AmiDog did a port of Frodo for WarpOS or i could be wrong.
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2004, 06:57:37 PM »
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Anyone can provide an url for mos port of frodo?

I'm not all that sure there is one. I was speaking from memory, but that's not as reliable as it used to be.   :-D
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2004, 06:59:58 PM »
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Frodo isn't fast I can't play c64 games with it, is't far too slow.


With some tweaking I was able to play many games at an acceptable speed on an 060/66.


Welcome back ;-)
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Re: MagiC64 - Could some continue developing it?
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2004, 07:08:40 PM »
MMm... VICE outperforms all other C64 emus.
A lot of the semi good c64 emus (Frodo and the others..) have big problems emulating the 1541 drive. And that means that only a small amount of software will run. Almost no new multifile releases works with Frodo. A port of VICE would be the best option IMO.
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