The VICE
Versatile Commodore Emulator

[NEW] (20 Apr 2000) Version 1.4

Written by Ettore Perazzoli, Daniel Sladic, Andreas Boose, Tibor Biczo, Dag Lem, Andreas Dehmel, Thomas Bretz, Andreas Matthies, Martin Pottendorfer, Teemu Rantanen, André Fachat.


Last updated: 20 Apr 2000 (New 1.4 release). 

Quickfinder

Unfortunately we no longer have the time to maintain a FAQ or other extra documents. The old version of the FAQ is already quite outdated, but Evan L. Schemm is working on that; he is also collecting some useful information for VICE users. Have a look at his VICE page.

Anyway, we probably need more help to keep all things going, so here is the usual call for volunteers... ;-) If you like to join our group, and help us in any way , please send a mail to vice-devel@firenze.linux.it.


What is VICE?

VICE is a Versatile Commodore Emulator, i.e. a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, OS/2 or RiscOS machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit Commodore computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C128 (80 column screen is included now), the VIC20, all the PET models (except the SuperPET 9000, which is out of line anyway) and the CBM-II (aka C610).

If you have any comments or bug reports, please contact us at one of the addresses given below. There is also an Evaluation Form you can fill out on the Web.

VICE is under constant change. Anyone interested in helping development of VICE is welcome. Please contact us to avoid doing something that someone else has done already. (-:

Of course our warm thanks go to everyone who has helped us in developing VICE during these past few years. 


Documents

Here are some documents that come with VICE:

Copyright

The VICE is copyrighted to Ettore Perazzoli, Daniel Sladic, Andreas Boose,

Tibor Biczo, Dag Lem, Andreas Dehmel, Thomas Bretz, Andreas Matthies,

Martin Pottendorfer, Teemu Rantanen, André Fachat.



VICE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it

under the terms of the GNU General Public License



as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

of the License, or (at your option) any later version.



VICE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

Download VICE

You can download the latest VICE distributions from this server: The files are taken from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE.
Note: Some people reported problems accessing the FUNET FTP server. If this happens to you, try the FUNET HTTP interface http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE.

If you like, you can use the same digital joysticks the Commodore machines can use, by connecting them to the parallel port; this only works on Linux. To do so, you have to grab the following custom version of the Linux joystick driver:

Instructions for building the cables are included (see the README.digital file). Many thanks to Bernhard Kuhn and Christof Petig, who have hacked this version of the Linux joystick driver. 

Contacts

Please put the word VICE in all capitals in your subject line (e.g. VICE fails to run game XXX). This helps mail splitting and reduces chances that your message is unintentionally deleted, forgotten or lost.

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