VICE
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- For other uses, see Vice (disambiguation).
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 VICE emulating Commodore 64 |
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| Developer: | VICE team |
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| Latest release: | 1.21 / March 10, 2007 |
| OS: | Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, Mac OS X, OS/2, RISC OS, QNX, BeOS, GP2X |
| Use: | emulator |
| License: | GNU General Public License |
| Website: | http://www.viceteam.org |
The software program VICE (all caps), standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is an emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers, running on Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, Mac OS X, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, and BeOS host machines. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public Licence.
Currently, VICE is one of the most widely-used emulators of the Commodore 8-bit microcomputers, and by far the most functional and accurate emulators of its kind. It is also one of the few usable Commodore emulators to exist on free *NIX platforms, and one of the first to be distributed under GNU GPL. It is also included with most Linux distributions.
Version 1.20 of VICE, released 2 September 2006, emulates the Commodore 64, the C128, the VIC-20, the Plus/4, and all the PET models including the CBM-II but excluding the 'non-standard' features of the SuperPET 9000. VICE for Microsoft Windows (Win32) is known as WinVICE, the OS/2 variant is called Vice/2, and the emulator running on BeOS is, not surprisingly, called BeVICE. WinVICE supports old-fashion digital joysticks via a parallel port driver, and, with a CatWeasel PCI card, is planned to perform hardware SID playback (requires optional SID chip installed in socket).
[edit] External links
- VICE homepage, with Online manual (HTML)
- VICE knowledge base (preliminary)
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