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Tutorial how to play frodo (C64) games.

56 replies · 118,662 views · Started 13 November 2002

Hi Celock,

Nice Avatar u got there... it reminded me of "KraftWerk"...

Anyway, in case u guys didnt notice... (just to let u guys know..)
Mr. Hannu (Hannu Viitala) above is the person thats responsible for porting E32Frodo, the C64 emulator to our Nokia 9210...

Thanks man, i guess we all love it... and pls drop-by often to share your thoughts..
😉 Its really nice to have u here...

p/s: Thanks for the version 0.41 with superb sound for our Nokia 9210...

Thanks for the compliments 😊. To be exact, my area was gfx and sfx ports from ER5 to ER6. There are other guys who had also done work for ER5/ER6 ports. So, if you are C64 freak and can code Epoc, welcome to Frodo development team 😉.

Btw. There is a help file in Frodo package, but it is not so easy to find. It is in folder \system\apps\e32frodohelp.htm.

can someone tell who can i control the plan in blue max????????????

anyone know if this emulator will be released on 3650 or 7650? It would be so cool to play outrun once again (from the pics on some website it doesnt look amazing as it once did many years ago). also does the emaulator currently support sound?

Hi,

FrodoS60 is currently under (non public) beta testing. It will be released after I have time to fix all bugs found, but I cannot give any relese date estimate. Audio is working (8 kHz in 9210, 16 kHz in 7650).

---> Hannu

... and now for the big question:

What are the controls on the P800?

How can I enter characters? Beamrider, for example, requires you to enter the number of players, and then difficulty, using the C64 keyboard. Using 'enter cmd' doesn't appear to work well. How does the joystick work? I can't seem to figure out how you 'fire', for example! :crazyeyes:

Hello All

I have installed .50 on my Nokia 3650 but I can not get any games to run.
- Can they be placed anywhere? Memory card?
-Can Frodo be installed on mmc?

I do not get any response from anything in the program?

- Eilif

can anybody teach me how to get the c64 emulator to work with the 3650? thanks

I have got the problem on my nokia 3650
When I do a list disk command it says it cant find the device and under the lauch game option it just sys no data.
I need to play uridium and bruce lee.
what a cool program
thanks in advance :-?

Here you can find a complete, visual, user manual to use Frodo emulator onto your P800:
http://www.geocities.com/lcassioli/frodo/

Luca

I can't ever figure out how to start games after they load. I can get some to run using the f1 keys (chr + a, etc). Is there a standard button(s) used to run games from the main screens? Plz help 😞

I have a 7650, how can i upload a game to the phone? And if i try to "select disk", it is empty. There is nothing i can select. What can i do? (sorry for my english!)

can anybody tell me how to get the prefs men� ona 3650 nokia???

:agrue:

The keyboard problem got solved, it seems; but the $ sign IS accessible via scandinavic keyboard too: press Chr + Ctrl, a table for special characters opens. Go to symbols and select the dollar sign. (Also helpful for a ton of other symbols 😉 )

Dazler wrote:The commodor was a very popular computer in it's days and because it's was easy to program on there were a lot of games available. But how to use these games? (Searched the net for a ancient c64 manual to figure this out 😉 )

The installing of the frodo app isn't that hard (frodo is the emulator) it works just like any other app.
Now we need some games. The games are packed in a file called blahblah.d64. This d64 file can be placed anywhere on your communicator.

Now start up the frodo app.
click on prefs (cba button) and go to 1541.
go to any of the drive boxes like for my example 'drive 8' press get file and point to the d64 file.

Now this d64 file behaves like a disk/drive on the commodor.

so when we return to the emulator we'll need to load the drive.
Type:
[code:1]
LOAD "$",8
[/code:1]

8 is the drive number
hey hi ya.....where can i download games for this....and also have you seen the mame emu for the 6600 yet....many thanks keni....
frodo should respond with something like:
[code:1]
Loading from 0801 (2049) to 087f
Ready.
[/code:1]
now press "list"
it will display the installed apps on the drive
In my example it contains this line:
[code:1]
170 "GIANA" PRG
[/code:1]
now load the app by typing
[code:1]load "giana"[/code:1]
after the system says "ready"
type
[code:1]
run
[/code:1]
the game will now launch.

In order to work with the arrows in this game, you need to press "caps" first (the button on your keyboard above shift 😉 )

I've added the emulator, the game and a screenshot of the game in stretched view.

BTW be patient when using this 😉

frodo doesnt seem to be able to recognize games on my MMC
so i put it in the main directory (only 500k left!)
now if i select "game.d64" it shows me the game a hundred times, like that

game.d64
game.d64
game.d64
game.d64
game.d64

and if i select ANY of them and try to start it i always encounter a "device not present error".
How can I get frodo to work, and how can it recognize games on my MMC????

Thank you very much.

Yours sincerely
John

Ok...

Now I have downloaded and installed frodo 0.51 on my N70...

downloaded the little computer people game on to my MMC ... in documents/e32frodo...

launched the game...

and it does something... and then just says READY.

Am I doing something wrong? How can I launch the game?

Thanks guys 😮

Once you download both the game files and WinVICE, you have another option to run the games-

1. Double click and .d64 file and you'll get a window with two options

2. Select "Select the program from a list" and click OK. You'll be presented with a list of programs. If winvice is already on this list, go to step 4. If not, continue to step 3.

3. Click "browse..." and go through the directories to locate the x64.exe in the winvice folder (It must be unzipped before you do this step!) Click the exe and then click "open".

4. Make sure the vice emulator is selected in the program list, and click OK.

5. Now you can instantly run any .d64 game by double-clicking on it!

[EDIT]
If a d64 file has a an individual file, which must be loaded on its own, you will need to load winvice and do the "attach disk image" routine to select that single file.