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VICE 2.4 Nov 2012
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\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
\ //
\________// Versatile Commodore 8-bit Emulator
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This is version 2.4 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;
- 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;
- doc/html/plain/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/html/plain directory:
- 64doc.txt, documentation about the C64 internals;
- PETdoc.txt, documentation about the PET internals;
- cbm_basic_tokens.txt, a list of the CBM BASIC tokens, as supported by the
petcat utility;
- serial.txt, description of the IEC serial bus used on the C64, VIC20 and
C128;
- drive_info.txt, information about the CBM disk drives;
- VIC-Article.txt, VIC-Artikel.txt, documentation about the VIC-II
internals;
- VIC-Addendum.txt, some corrections and additions to above article;
- pixel_aspect.txt, documentation on how pixel aspect ratio has been
determined;
- 65802and65816.txt, documentation on the 65802 and 65816 CPUs;
- 65C02.txt, documentation on the 65C02 CPU;
- 65CE02.txt, documentation on the 65CE02 CPU;
- 6809and6309.txt, documentation on the 6809 and 6309 CPUs;
- z80.txt, documentation on the Z80 CPU;
- 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)
- NLS-Howto.txt, some documentation about Unix NLS support;
- 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
- MacOSX-ResourceTree.txt, overview of the Mac OSX resource tree
- in the doc/readmes directory:
- Readme-DOS.txt, MS-DOS specific documentation;
- Readme-BeOS.txt, BeOS specific documentation;
- Readme-Amiga.txt, Amiga specific documentation;
- Readme-MacOSX.txt, Mac OSX specific documentation;
- Readme-OS2.txt, OS/2 specific documentation;
- Readme-SDL.txt, SDL specific documentation;
- in the doc/building directory:
- MSDOS-Howto.txt, how to compile the MSDOS port.
- MSDOS-Ethernet-Howto.txt, how to compile the MSDOS port with ethernet
support.
- OpenWatcom-Howto.txt, how to compile the MSDOS port with open watcom
- Win32-Mingw32-Howto.txt, how to compile the Win32 port using ming32
- Win32-Cygwin-Howto.txt, how to compile the Win32 port using cygwin
- Linux-Mingw32-Howto.txt, how to crosscompile the Win32 port on linux
- MacOSX-Howto.txt, how to compile the Mac OSX port
- Minix-Howto.txt, how to compile the Minix port
- OpenVMS-Howto.txt, how to compile the OpenVMS port
- SDL-Howto.txt, how to compile the SDL port
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
----------------
VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator
Copyright C 1998-2014 Dag Lem
Copyright C 1999-2014 Andreas Matthies
Copyright C 1999-2014 Martin Pottendorfer
Copyright C 2005-2014 Marco van den Heuvel
Copyright C 2006-2014 Christian Vogelgsang
Copyright C 2007-2014 Fabrizio Gennari
Copyright C 2007-2014 Daniel Kahlin
Copyright C 2008-2014 Antti S. Lankila
Copyright C 2009-2014 Groepaz
Copyright C 2009-2014 Ingo Korb
Copyright C 2009-2014 Errol Smith
Copyright C 2010-2014 Olaf Seibert
Copyright C 2011-2014 Marcus Sutton
Copyright C 2011-2014 Ulrich Schulz
Copyright C 2011-2014 Stefan Haubenthal
Copyright C 2011-2014 Thomas Giesel
Copyright C 2011-2014 Kajtar Zsolt
Copyright C 2012-2014 Benjamin Rosseaux
Copyright C 2000-2012 Spiro Trikaliotis
Copyright C 2007-2011 Hannu Nuotio
Copyright C 1998-2010 Andreas Boose
Copyright C 1998-2010 Tibor Biczo
Copyright C 2007-2010 M. Kiesel
Copyright C 1999-2007 Andreas Dehmel
Copyright C 2003-2005 David Hansel
Copyright C 2000-2004 Markus Brenner
Copyright C 1999-2004 Thomas Bretz
Copyright C 1997-2001 Daniel Sladic
Copyright C 1996-2001 André Fachat
Copyright C 1996-1999 Ettore Perazzoli
Copyright C 1993-1994, 1997-1999 Teemu Rantanen
Copyright C 1993-1996 Jouko Valta
Copyright C 1993-1994 Jarkko Sonninen
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.