Hello, I just saw that GEOS for the commador 64 has been released for download and I felt it would be perfect for my Epson Equity Lt. My problem is that I cant find a c64 emulator that works on non 32bit computers (ie needs 80386). I know very little about emulators, so if anyone knows if I really need one or of an emulator that runs on my processor the information would be very helpful. I have tried ccs64 and vice to no avail and frodo doesn't seem to have a dos program. Thanks.

I don't know a heck of a lot myself, but my experience is they usually require a bit of horsepower to run. I've got Nesticle running ok on a 200MHz Your machine is basically an XT - they don't come much humbler. bit of a rarity that V30 - what is it 10Mhz or higher? DOS: Learn it Love it Live it

The actual chip is the nec V30, but it was infact a clone of Intel's 8086. In fact they lost in a copywrite battle, but anyway anything that works with the 8086 works on my computer. It has two speeds 4.77 MHz and 10Mhz (its kind of neat there's actually a switch on the keyboard- I've never used the slower speed). The big problem is that it only has a 16-bit data bus and all these programs require 32bit or a sever running that requires 80386. As you can see this machine is a little over the hill, but looking at pictures from the commador 64 which came out about the same time, the GEOS operating system looked pretty nice.

Oh yeah, the 8086 was what was supposed to go into the original PC© and XT lines, but was too expensive so we got the 8088 (16 bit internal, 8 bit external bus). My first machine, original speed was 4.77 but with 'turbo' switched on it whipped along at 8MHz. Still have a 33MHz XT clone (not that you'd notice any blinding speed from it) AFAIK the Intel 8086 was never incorporated into home desktops - but the V series was likely another story, seen plenty of NEC V20s Commodores were pretty amazing - they did quite a bit with what little they had - it took years for the PCs to match their game graphics. DOS: Learn it Love it Live it