VICE
For other uses, see Vice (disambiguation).The software program
VICE (all caps), standing for
Versat
Ile
Commodore
Emulator, is an
emulator for
Commodore's
8-bit computers, running on
Unix,
MS-DOS,
Win32,
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 1.19 of VICE, released
14 January,
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).
Up to and including the now obsolete version 1.14 of VICE,
Mac OS X was supported as well.
*
VICE homepage, with
Online manual (
HTML)
*
VICE knowledge base (preliminary)
