Readme: | VICE 2.4 Nov 2012
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This is version 2.3 of VICE, the multi-platform C64, C128, VIC20, PET, PLUS4 and CBM-II emulator. This version can be compiled for MSDOS, Win32, RiscOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, AmigaOS, GP2X, 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;
- doc/html/plain/BUGS, a list of the most important known bugs of this release (please read it before reporting bugs);
- doc/html/plain/TODO, a list of what we would like to do next (this is no promise!);
- FEEDBACK, something you should read before sending mail to any of the authors;
The following documents are provided in the source distribution:
- doc/vice.texi, the complete documentation;
- doc/html/plain/64doc.txt, documentation about the C64 internals;
- doc/html/plain/PETdoc.txt, documentation about the PET internals;
- doc/html/plain/cbm_basic_tokens.txt, a list of the CBM BASIC tokens, as supported by the petcat utility;
- doc/html/plain/serial.txt, description of the IEC serial bus used on the C64, VIC20 and C128;
- doc/html/plain/drive_info.txt, information about the CBM disk drives;
- doc/Readme.dos, MS-DOS specific documentation;
- doc/Readme.beos, BeOS specific documentation;
- doc/Win32-Howto.txt, how to compile the Win32 port.
- doc/NLS-Howto.txt, some documentation about Unix NLS support;
- doc/MSDOS-Howto.txt, how to compile the MSDOS port.
- doc/MSDOS-Ethernet-Howto.txt, how to compile the MSDOS port with ethernet support.
- doc/iec-bus.txt, overview of the VICE IEC bus emulation;
For the latest news, have a look at the VICE home page:
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/
New versions are made available quite often, so please stay tuned.
Have fun!
Copyright notice ----------------
VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator
Copyright C 1998-2012 Dag Lem Copyright C 1999-2012 Andreas Matthies Copyright C 1999-2012 Martin Pottendorfer Copyright C 2005-2012 Marco van den Heuvel Copyright C 2006-2012 Christian Vogelgsang Copyright C 2007-2012 Fabrizio Gennari Copyright C 2007-2012 Daniel Kahlin Copyright C 2008-2012 Antti S. Lankila Copyright C 2009-2012 Groepaz Copyright C 2009-2012 Ingo Korb Copyright C 2009-2012 Errol Smith Copyright C 2010-2012 Olaf Seibert Copyright C 2011-2012 Marcus Sutton Copyright C 2011-2012 Ulrich Schulz Copyright C 2011-2012 Stefan Haubenthal Copyright C 2011-2012 Thomas Giesel Copyright C 2011-2012 Kajtar Zsolt Copyright C 2012 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 Andr� 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.
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