VICE
VICE is a Versatile Commodore Emulator, i.e. a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS/Win95/NT or RiscOS machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit Commodore computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C128 (80 column screen is included now), the VIC20, all the PET models (except the SuperPET 9000, which is out of line anyway) and the CBM-II (aka C610).
| Tags | Emulators |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases
- 20 Oct 2004 13:23
Changes: This release features improved event recording and playback, improved REL file handling, and bugfixes in the petcat tokenizer. C64 mode has some bugfixes, improved TFE card emulation, and preliminary support for the Magic Formel cart. VIC-20 mode now supports four drives, and its sound code has been rewritten. Plus/4 mode now has cartridge support. The VIC-II module has improved IRQ timing during DMA. There are mmany updates specific to the Unix distribution.
- 02 Oct 2003 20:39
Changes: In this release, various bugfixes and improvements were made for emulation of all supported platforms. CatWeasel support was fixed and should work now. Support for HardSID was added, along with a Scale2x rendering option. A printer settings dialog was added to the Win32 version.
- 21 Jul 2003 02:36
Changes: This version adds an -autoload switch which acts like - autostart but without actually starting the program. It is possible to use the printer emulation without switching off true drive emulation now. Each file system drive has a separate error channel. A command was added to the monitor to put a string into the keyboard buffer. The PC of the drive CPU emulation is now correctly shown in the monitor prompt. The monitor now shows the current line and cycle. It is now possible to switch off reset on cart attach/detach. There are many bugfixes too.
- 20 Jan 2003 16:42
Changes: Many bugfixes for all emulations have been made, along with an improved emulation of cbm graphic hardware.
- 19 Feb 2002 19:07
Changes: The new emulated VIC-II palette is now the default. This release adds support for the Retro Replay cartridge, Fast PAL emulation, stereo support, and triple buffering DGA2 direct-into-fb-rendering support (root privileges needed).
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Recent commentsAwesome emulator
This has to be one of the best emulators available. It supports pretty much anything to do with c64/c128 and vic20 and also has hotkeys for exactly the kind of functions you'd want to enhance your commodore experience (warp mode, disk swapping, joystick port swapping) without creating more problems. The number of features it has are too great to list and praise all of them. Congrats to the VICE team for a truly fantastic piece of software.
If you want games to play, just go to http://www.c64.com and you'll find some of the best games ever made.