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2007-04-11 , 22:35
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Originally Posted by Mika73 View Post
Thanks
Could someone who knows these things better make install package of it that would add installed Frodo C64 emulator to N770/N800 Extras menu.

But if Frodo takes so much CPU power that it does drain battery at 30min then its not very useful ŽOn The RoadŽ when you are not plugged to wall.

Its not possible make .frodorc directory to memory card and run frodo from there? It has to be at /home/user/.frodorc directory?
Installable package is forthcoming. This build is just being made available for testing - so please try out various configurations in the .rc conf file and check compatibility against Commodore applications, test sound and disk access (host mode and floppy drives) etc.

Frodo does not consume excessive battery power. I just ran frodo for 60 minutes with no loss of battery power level on a nokia 770. All emulators are cpu-intensive programs, and require more power than a native app that spends most of its' time sleeping. (Edit) There appears to be a bug on Nokia 800 where battery indicator is not accurate when battery is getting low. Reflashing OS to latest version should solve this.

Some things to do:
  • Mapping of dpad and buttons to joystick
  • Map home key to exit emu (F10)
  • Packaging / Menu items, fullscreen/normalscreen
  • Double size mode.
  • Native text input methods
  • Integration into xmaeme?
  • ???

(Edit) Yes commodore disk files can be copied to MMC and loaded with the emu. In principle.
Last edited by ArnimS; 2007-04-13 at 04:19.