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- <font size=+1>(29 Jan 2005)</font> Version 1.16
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- Current VICE team members: Andreas Boose, Tibor Biczo, Dag Lem,
- Andreas Dehmel, Thomas Bretz, Andreas Matthies, Martin Pottendorfer,
- Spiro Trikaliotis, David Hansel, Markus Brenner.
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- Quickfinder
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- <a href="#vice">What is VICE?</a>
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- <p>What is <a href="plain/NEWS">NEW</a> with the 1.16 release?
- <bold>(This is definitely worth reading <tt>:-)</tt></bold>
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- The VICE <a href="vice_toc.html">Manuals online</a>
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- <a href="bin/vice-docs.zip">Download</a> the VICE manuals.
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-
- <li>
- ...and the rest of the <a href="#docs">Docs.</a>
- </li>
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- Please send a bug report via email to one of the addresses listed
- in the <a href="#contact">contact</a> section. The list of already known
- <a href="plain/BUGS">BUGS</a> is also available.
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- What we are about <a href="plain/TODO">TODO</a> with it...
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- <a href="vice_12.html">Developers</a>
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- <a href="#download">Download</a> VICE
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- Here you can find <a href="#Related Resources">related resources</a>.
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- <a href="#copyright">Copyright - GNU Copyleft</a>
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- <a href="#contact">Contacts</a>
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- </ul>
-
- 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 The old version of the FAQ is already quite outdated.<br>
- Anyway, we started setting up a new FAQ which can be found at the
- <a href="http://www.vicekb.de.vu/">VICE knowledge base</a> in its
- preliminary state.
- <p>Anyway, we probably need more help to keep all things going, so here
- is the usual call for volunteers... <tt>;-)</tt> If you like to join our
- group, and help us in any way , please send a mail to
- <a href="mailto:vice-devel@firenze.linux.it">vice-devel@firenze.linux.it</a>.
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- <p>
-
- <hr><a NAME="vice"></a>
-
- <h1>
- What is VICE?
- </h1>
-
- <b>VICE</b> is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn
- RISC OS or BeOS machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit
- computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20,
- all the PET models (except the SuperPET 9000, which is out of line
- anyway), the PLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka C610).
-
- <p>If you have any comments or bug reports, please contact us at one of
- the addresses given below.
-
- <p>VICE is under constant change. Anyone interested in helping development
- of VICE is welcome. Please contact
- <a href="mailto:vice-devel@firenze.linux.it">us</a>
- to avoid doing something that someone else has done already. <tt>(-:</tt>
-
- <p>Of course our warm thanks go to everyone who has helped us in developing
- VICE during these past few years.
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- <p>
- <hr>
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- <h2>
- <a NAME="docs"></a>Documents
- </h2>
-
- Here are some documents that come with VICE:
-
- <ul>
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- <li>
- <b><a href="plain/64doc.txt">64doc.txt</a></b>
- contains the CPU instruction set and more on the C64
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <b><a href="plain/PETdoc.txt">PETdoc.txt</a></b>
- contains PET information
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <b><a href="plain/cbm_basic_tokens.txt">cbm_basic_tokens.txt</a></b>
- is a listing of BASIC token values.
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <b><a href="plain/drive_info.txt">drive_info.txt</a></b>
- has CBM disk drive stuff
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <b><a href="plain/serial.txt">serial.txt</a></b>
- is an explanation of the serial IEC bus
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <b><a href="plain/Walkthrough-Howto.txt">Walkthrough-Howto.txt</a></b>
- is a guide explaining VICE's event history feature
- </li>
-
- </ul>
-
- <hr><a NAME="copyright"></a>
-
- <h1>
- Copyright
- </h1>
-
- <pre>The VICE is copyrighted to Andreas Boose, Tibor Biczo, Dag Lem,
- Andreas Dehmel, Thomas Bretz, Andreas Matthies, Martin Pottendorfer,
- Markus Brenner, Spiro Trikaliotis, David Hansel, Ettore Perazzoli,
- Daniel Sladic, Teemu Rantanen, André Fachat.
-
- <b>VICE</b> is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the <a href="plain/COPYING">GNU General Public License</a>
- as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
- of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
- <b>VICE</b> 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.</pre>
-
- <hr>
- <a NAME="download"></a>
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- <h2>
- Download VICE
- </h2>
-
- You can download the latest VICE distributions here.
- Some ports may not be available at the release date.
-
- <p>
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- <li>
- <b>Source</b> distributions:
- </li>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- Tarball:
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/vice-1.16.tar.gz">vice-1.16.tar.gz</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>
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- <li>
- New <b>binary</b> distributions:
- </li>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>
- Binary for <b>MS-DOS</b> (Pentium-optimized):
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/vice116.zip">vice116.zip</a>
- </li>
-
- <br>
- <b>Please use the '-d' option if you are using pkzip, to unpack the
- archive with the full directory tree.</b> Otherwise you get error messages
- about some ROMs (kernal, basic etc) not being found.
-
- <li>
- Binary for <b>MS-Windows</b> 32bit (Pentium-optimized):
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/WinVICE-1.16.zip">WinVICE-1.16.zip</a>
- </li>
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- <li>
- Binary for <b>Acorn RISC OS</b> systems:
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/vice-riscos1_16.zip">vice-riscos1_16.zip</a>
- </li>
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- Binary for <b>OS/2</b> systems:
- <a href="http://www.d4m.de/vice2/archive/vice2-1.16.zip">vice-os2-1.16.zip</a>.
- Additional information can be found at the
- <a href="http://www.d4m.de/vice2/">Vice/2</a>
- homepage.
- </li>
-
- <li>
- Binary for <b>BeOS x86</b> systems:
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/BeVICE-1.16.x86.zip">BeVICE-1.16.x86.zip</a>
- </li>
-
- </ul>
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- <li>
- Old <b>binary</b> distributions:
- </li>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>
- Binary for <b>MS-DOS</b> (Pentium-optimized):
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/vice115.zip">vice115.zip</a>
- </li>
-
- <br>
- <b>Please use the '-d' option if you are using pkzip, to unpack the
- archive with the full directory tree.</b> Otherwise you get error messages
- about some ROMs (kernal, basic etc) not being found.
-
- <li>
- Binary for <b>MS-Windows</b> 32bit (Pentium-optimized):
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/WinVICE-1.15.zip">WinVICE-1.15.zip</a>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- Binary for <b>Acorn RISC OS</b> systems:
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/vice-riscos1_15.zip">vice-riscos1_15.zip</a>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- Binary for <b>OS/2</b> systems:
- <a href="http://www.d4m.de/vice2/archive/vice2-1.15.zip">vice2-1.15.zip</a>.
- Additional information can be found at the
- <a href="http://www.d4m.de/vice2/">Vice/2</a>
- homepage.
- </li>
-
- <li>
- Binary for <b>BeOS x86</b> systems:
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/BeVICE-1.15.x86.zip">BeVICE-1.15.x86.zip</a></li>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- Binary for <b>Mac OS X</b> systems (requires at least Mac OS X 10.3 and X11.app 1.0):
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/VICE1.14-macosx.dmg">VICE1.14-macosx.dmg</a>
- </li>
-
- </ul>
-
- The files are taken from
-
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE">ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE</a>.
-
- <br><b>Note:</b> Some people reported problems accessing the FUNET FTP
- server. If this happens to you, try the FUNET HTTP interface
- <a href="http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE">http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE</a>.
- <p>
-
- <hr>
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- <h1>
- <a NAME="Related Resources">Related resources
- </h1>
-
- <li>
- <b>General</b>
- </li>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- Walkthrough for Fort Apocalypse:
- <a href="http://www.viceteam.org/online/FortApocalypseWalkthrough.zip">Download</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- VICE Printer Output to Postscript (VICEtoPS):
- <a href="http://www.pdbuchan.com/commodore/vicetops.html">Homepage</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- Patch for VICE 1.14 to fix crash on 64bit architectures:
- <a href="http://www.viceteam.org/online/vice64bit.diff.gz">Download</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <li>
- <b>MS-Windows</b>
- </li>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- CBM4Win driver and OpenCBM library:
- <a href="http://cbm4win.sf.net/">Homepage</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Parallel port joystick driver for MS-Windows 2000/XP/98/Me:
- <a href="http://www.geocities.com/deonvdw/PPJoy.htm">Homepage</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Precompiled FFMPEG video/audio codec library for MS-Windows:
- <a href="ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/ffmpeg-0.4.8-win32dll.zip">Download</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <li>
- <b>Linux</b>
- </li>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- CBM4Linux kernel driver and OpenCBM library:
- <a href="http://www.lb.shuttle.de/puffin/cbm4linux/">Homepage</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
- <ul>
- <li>
- FFMPEG video/audio codec library:
- <a href="http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/">Homepage</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <li>
- <b>Mac OS X</b>
- </li>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- Patch from Daniel Aarno for VICE 1.14 to fix SDL sound problems:
- <a href="http://www.viceteam.org/online/soundsdl.patch">Download</a>
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <hr>
-
- <h1>
- <a NAME="contact">Contacts
- </h1>
-
- <p>Before contacting us, have a look at the
- <a href="http://www.vicekb.de.vu/">VICE knowledge base</a> (which is under
- construction at the moment) if your question is answered there. Keep in mind
- that we work on VICE in our spare-time, so the more time we don't need to answer
- the same questions over and over again, the more time we have to improve the
- emulation itself. On the other hand, that does not mean that you should not
- contact us, especially if you find bugs or have suggestions which might
- improve the emulation.</p>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>
- Generic questions, bug reports, suggestions etc.: The Vice team
- (<a href="mailto:vice-devel@firenze.linux.it">vice-devel@firenze.linux.it</a>)
- </li>
-
- </ul>
-
- Please put the word <tt>VICE</tt> <i>in all capitals</i> in your subject
- line (e.g. <tt>VICE fails to run game XXX</tt>). This helps mail splitting
- and reduces chances that your message is unintentionally deleted, forgotten
- or lost.
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