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<font size=+1>(29 Jan 2005)</font> Version 1.16
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<h4>
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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<h1>
Quickfinder
</h1>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#vice">What is VICE?</a>
</li>
<li>
<p>What is <a href="plain/NEWS">NEW</a> with the 1.16 release?
<bold>(This is definitely worth reading <tt>:-)</tt></bold>
</li>
<li>
The VICE <a href="vice_toc.html">Manuals online</a>
</li>
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<li>
<img SRC="images/new.gif" ALT="[NEW]">
<a href="bin/vice-docs.zip">Download</a> the VICE manuals.
</li>
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<li>
...and the rest of the <a href="#docs">Docs.</a>
</li>
<li>
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.
</li>
<li>
What we are about <a href="plain/TODO">TODO</a> with it...
</li>
<li>
<a href="vice_12.html">Developers</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#download">Download</a> VICE
</li>
<li>
Here you can find <a href="#Related Resources">related resources</a>.
</li>
<li>
<a href="#copyright">Copyright - GNU Copyleft</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#contact">Contacts</a>
</li>
</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 The old version of the FAQ is already quite outdated.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>.
<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.
<p>
<hr>
<h2>
<a NAME="docs"></a>Documents
</h2>
Here are some documents that come with VICE:
<ul>
<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>
<h2>
Download VICE
</h2>
You can download the latest VICE distributions here.
Some ports may not be available at the release date.
<p>
<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>
<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>
<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>
<li>
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>
<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>
<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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