Commodore 64 emulator in Flash

By at 1:03 am Thursday, Aug 24

The folks at OSFlash have figured out how to emulate a Commodore 64 computer in Flash, so that old C64 apps can be run within a Flash app. The source for the emulator is licensed under the GPL.
FC64 is the first low level Commodore 64 emulator for the Flash Player. Yes, Flash! It emulates most of the C64 hardware and executes the original Kernel and Basic ROMs. Under the hood, it even features an 6502 assembler, disassembler and debugger. Best of all, it's all open source and extensible so you could quite easily go ahead and write an emulator for *your* favourite eightbitter (NES, Apple ][, Atari 2600, BBC, you name it).

We put some original game ROMs online with it, so go ahead and enjoy some old Llamasoft titles like Matrix (released as public domain), or just hack in some Commodore Basic.

10 PRINT "C64 R0XRZ ";
20 GOTO 10

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