Thread: Frodo C64 Emulator is Here!
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blachner is offline blachner
2007-10-24 , 07:57
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Hi, I just found this thread about Frodo. I'm the developer of the Frodo Zaurus port and I work also on a port for the Nokia 770.

You can found information of the Zausus port on:
http://lachner-net.de/index.php?opti...emid=5&lang=en

There is also a GUI application for Frodo on Zaurus:
http://lachner-net.de/index.php?opti...emid=5&lang=en

But this is based on Qt (embedded) and not useful on the Nokia devices. Fore some reasons it is also not the best solution on the Zaurus, so a SDL GUI would be the better way.

Originally Posted by ArnimS View Post
(edit 05:04) Frodo Author Christian Bauer appears to have been working on an internal SDL GUI, which would avoid the problems with TK gui (creating a seperate window not registered with hildon), but no changes apparent since 2005
Yes. In my opinion SDL GUI would be the best solution for this problem. AFAIK Christian works on this for Frodo 5, but I think he don't work anymore on Frodo 5 or he don't have time to work on it.

So I decided to start SDL GUI development for Frodo 4 which is now in CVS as a first alpha version.

You can find some screenshots of Frodo with SDL GUI and a short description here:
http://lachner-net.de/index.php?opti...mid=16&lang=en

Originally Posted by ArnimS View Post
Looking at CVS now it appears the Frodo authors have a zaurus and that the sdl gui is in current development. It appears that a port with builtin gui features will be available fairly soon.
Yes I have a Zaurus and also a Nokia 770. And I'm working ont the port. Unfortunately, because we building our house, I haven't much time this year to develop on it. So I think it will take some time till the Nokia 770 port is finished.


Originally Posted by ArnimS View Post
I have built a cvs version that runs now, but the fullscreen and arrow keys / dpad arrows do not work yet, so there is no user benefit over the previous release.
Yes, it allready runs on the N770. But it is not really useful, because a on screen keybord is missing. I work at the moment on this in my spare time. I will implement it also as a SDL on screen keybord and use not the meamo on screen keyboard, because it should work on other devices like the Zaurus or OpenMoko phones too.

Nevertheless I plan also to make some packages for maemo soon. At the moment mainly for testing. I set up a garage project for this: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/frodo
 

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