VICE 3.3 Dec 2018
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This release stabilizes and introduces the GTK3 UI as the primary user
interface for all major ports. For "lesser" platforms we still have the SDL
based interface. All other user interfaces have been removed. RIP
We are still looking for dedicated maintainers for the Windows- and macOS
ports, if you want to help improving these and/or want to provide binaries,
please get in touch.
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This is version 3.3 of VICE, the multi-platform C64, C128, VIC20,
PET, PLUS4 and CBM-II emulator. This version can be compiled for
MSDOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, AmigaOS, Dingoo,
Syllable, SkyOS and for most Unix systems provided with
the X Window System version 11, R5 or later.
The following programs are included:
- x64, a C64 emulator;
- x64sc, a C64 emulator focused on accuracy;
- xscpu64, a C64 emulator with a SuperCPU cart;
- x64dtv, a C64 Direct-to-TV (DTV) emulator;
- x128, a C128 emulator;
- xvic, a VIC20 emulator;
- xpet, a PET emulator;
- xplus4, a PLUS4 emulator;
- xcbm2, a CBM-6x0/7x0 emulator;
- xcbm5x0, a CBM-5x0 emulator;
- vsid, a SID player;
- c1541, a stand-alone disk image maintenance utility;
- petcat, a CBM BASIC de-tokenizer;
- cartconv, a C64/C128 cartridge conversion program.
Moreover, the following documents are provided in both source and
binary distributions:
- README, this file;
- COPYING, the GNU General Public License under which VICE is
distributed -- *please read it before using the program*;
- INSTALL, installation instructions;
- NEWS, list of user-visible changes between this and older versions of VICE;
- FEEDBACK, something you should read before reporting bugs or sending mail
to any of the authors;
The following documents are provided in the source distribution:
- in the doc directory:
- vice.texi, the complete documentation; documentation in various different
formats may be generated from it (vice.txt, vice.pdf, vice.chm, vice.hlp,
vice.guide, vice.inf, vice.info)
- iec-bus.txt, overview of the VICE IEC bus emulation;
- CIA-README.txt, overview of the VICE CIA emulation;
- coding-guidelines.txt, description of VICE coding style
- Documentation-Howto.txt, information on how to edit the documentation
- Doxygen-Howto.txt, how to generate doxygen documentation
- Release-Howto.txt, some hints and reminders on how to create a release
tarball (for maintainers)
- ffmpeg-support.txt, this document details the results of test compiles
with regards to the included ffmpeg library.
- SDL-support.txt, this document details the results of test compiles with
regards to the SDL 1 and SDL 2 support.
- hardware-sids.txt, this document details the hardware SIDs and how they
are supported on the various platforms.
- in the doc/readmes directory:
- Readme-GTK3.txt, GTK3 specific documentation;
- Readme-SDL.txt, SDL specific documentation;
- Readme-SDL2.txt, SDL2 specific documentation;
- in the doc/building directory:
- Windows-MinGW-GTK3-Howto.txt, how to compile the Windows port using MingGW/MSYS2
- Linux-GTK3-Howto.txt, how to compile the GTK3 port on Linux
- GTK3-macOS.txt, how to compile the Mac OSX port with GTK3 UI
- SDL-Howto.txt, how to compile the SDL port on various platforms
- Android-Howto, how to compile the Android SDL port
- FreeBSD-GTK3-Howto.txt, hints on compiling the GTK3 port on FreeBSD
- NetBSD-howto.txt, hints on compiling for NetBSD
For the latest news, have a look at the VICE home page:
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/
Also some information that was previously included in the distribution has been
moved into our wiki at sourceforge:
- The TODO list,
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Todo#New_Features
- The list of known BUGS,
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Todo#Known_Issues
New versions are made available quite often, so please stay tuned.
Have fun!
Copyright notice
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VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator
Core Team Members:
2005-2018 Marco van den Heuvel
2007-2018 Fabrizio Gennari
2009-2018 Groepaz
2009-2018 Errol Smith
2010-2018 Olaf Seibert
2011-2018 Marcus Sutton
2011-2018 Kajtar Zsolt
2016-2018 AreaScout
2016-2018 Bas Wassink
2017-2018 Michael C. Martin
Inactive/Ex Team Members:
1999-2017 Martin Pottendorfer
2011-2016 Stefan Haubenthal
2015-2016 BSzili
1999-2016 Andreas Matthies
2007-2015 Daniel Kahlin
2012-2014 Benjamin 'BeRo' Rosseaux
2011-2014 Ulrich Schulz
2011-2014 Thomas Giesel
2009-2014 Ingo Korb
2008-2014 Antti S. Lankila
2006-2014 Christian Vogelgsang
1998-2014 Dag Lem
2000-2011 Spiro Trikaliotis
2007-2011 Hannu Nuotio
1998-2010 Andreas Boose
1998-2010 Tibor Biczo
2007-2010 M. Kiesel
1999-2007 Andreas Dehmel
2003-2005 David Hansel
2000-2004 Markus Brenner
1999-2004 Thomas Bretz
1997-2001 Daniel Sladic
1996-2001 André Fachat
1996-1999 Ettore Perazzoli
1993-1994, 1997-1999 Teemu Rantanen
1993-1996 Jouko Valta
1993-1994 Jarkko Sonninen
Translation Team Members:
2009-2017 Mikkel Holm Olsen
2000-2017 Martin Pottendorfer
2011-2017 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez Bas
2004-2017 Paul Dubé
2006-2017 Czirkos Zoltan
2006-2017 Karai Csaba
2001-2017 Andrea Musuruane
2011-2016 Jesse Lee
2005-2017 Marco van den Heuvel
2011-2017 Jarek Sobolewski
2010-2017 Michael Litvinov
2000-2017 Peter Krefting
2008-2017 Emir Akaydin
This program 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.
This program 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.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307 USA
The ROM files in the `C128', `C64', `CBM-II', `DRIVES', `PET', `PLUS4'
`PRINTER' and `VIC20' directories are Copyright C by Commodore
Business Machines.
The ROM files in the `C64DTV` directory are Copyright C by Commodore
Business Machines, as well as Mammoth Toys, a division of nsi ltd.,
Digital Concepts DC studios inc., Ironstone Partners ltd., and
Toy:Lobster company ltd.