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   Frodo is a freeware C64 emulator for BeOS, Unix, MacOS, AmigaOS, Win32
   and RiscOS systems and the world's first C64 emulator not bearing a
   "64" in its name. :-) (No, it has absolutely nothing to do with
   frodo.hiof.no, that's a pure coincidence.)
   
   Frodo was developed to reproduce the graphics of games and demos
   better than the existing C64 emulators. Therefore Frodo has relatively
   high system requirements: It should only be run on systems with at
   least a PowerPC/Pentium/68060. But on the other hand, Frodo can
   display raster effects correctly that only result in a flickering mess
   with other emulators.
   
   Frodo comes in three flavours: The "normal" Frodo with a line-based
   emulation, the improved line-based emulation "Frodo PC", and the
   single-cycle emulation Frodo SC that is slower but far more
   compatible.
 
   In addition to a precise 6510/VIC emulation, Frodo features a
   processor-level 1541 emulation that is even able to handle about 95%
   of all fast loaders. There is also a faster 1541 emulation for four
   drives in .d64/x64 disk images, .t64/LYNX archives, or directories of
   the host system.