
  VICE  3.9                                                          Dec 2024


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                   \________//   Versatile Commodore 8-bit Emulator



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 We are still looking for dedicated maintainers for the Windows port, if you
 want to help improving these and/or want to provide binaries,
 please get in touch.

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 This is version 3.9 of VICE, the multi-platform C64, C128, VIC20,
 PET, PLUS4 and CBM-II emulator.  This version can be compiled for
 Win32, macOS, Haiku and for most Unix systems provided with the X Window
 System version 11, R5 or later.

 The following programs are included:

   - x64sc, a C64 emulator focused on accuracy;

   - xscpu64, a C64 emulator with a SuperCPU cart;

   - 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.

   - x64, the old and less accurate C64 emulator, is no more built by default
     and only included if explicitly enabled at configure time;

 Moreover, the following documents are provided in both source and
 binary distributions:

   - README, this file;

   - NEWS, list of user-visible changes between this and older versions of VICE;

   - COPYING, the GNU General Public License under which VICE is
     distributed -- *please read it before using the program*;

 The following documents are provided in the source distribution:

   - in the doc directory:

     - vice.texi, the complete documentation; documentation in various different
       formats may be generated from it (vice.txt, vice.pdf)
     - iec-bus.txt, overview of the VICE IEC bus emulation;
     - CIA-README.txt, overview of the VICE CIA emulation;
     - coding-guidelines.txt, description of VICE coding style
     - Documentation-Howto.txt, information on how to edit the documentation
     - Doxygen-Howto.txt, how to generate doxygen documentation
     - Release-Howto.txt, some hints and reminders on how to create a release
       tarball (for maintainers) are supported on the various platforms.

   - in the doc/readmes directory:

     - Readme-GTK3.txt, GTK3 specific documentation;
     - Readme-SDL.txt, SDL specific documentation;
     - Readme-SDL2.txt, SDL2 specific documentation;

   - in the doc/building directory:

     - Android-Howto, how to compile the Android SDL port
     - FreeBSD-GTK3-Howto.txt, hints on compiling the GTK3 port on FreeBSD
     - GTK3-cross-build-setup.md, (incomplete) instructions on how to set up
       a windows crosscompiler on linux
     - GTK3-debian-frankenvice.md, instructions on how to set up a windows
       crosscompiler on debian using precompiled fedora mingw packages
     - GTK3-Fedora-cross-build-setup.md, (incomplete) instructions on how to
       set up a windows crosscompiler on Fedora linux
     - Linux-GTK3-Howto.txt, how to compile the GTK3 port on Linux
     - macOS-Distribution-Howto.txt, how to build the macOS binary distribution
     - macOS-Howto.txt, how to build on macOS (might be deprecated)
     - macOS-Xcode-Howto.txt, how to build the macOS port(s) using Xcode
     - NetBSD-Gtk3-Wowto.txt, hints on compiling for NetBSD with Gtk3
     - NetBSD-howto.txt, hints on compiling for NetBSD
     - SDL-Howto.txt, how to compile the SDL port on various platforms
     - Windows-MinGW-GTK3-Howto.txt, how to compile the Windows port using
       MingGW/MSYS2

 For the latest news, have a look at the VICE home page:

     http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/

 Also some information that was previously included in the distribution has been
 moved into our wiki at sourceforge:

   - The TODO list,
     http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Todo#New_Features

   - The list of known BUGS,
     http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Todo#Known_Issues

 New versions are made available usually once per year, so please stay tuned.

 You may also check out the automatic nightly builds, which are kindly provided
 by the pokefinder crew: https://vice.pokefinder.org/


 Have fun!


 Feedback
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 It's always nice to receive feedback and/or bugreports about VICE, but please
 read these few notes before sending mail to anybody in the team.

 - Please don't send any HTML mail (we really hate that!).  Please make sure
   you turn off the "rich text" (HTML) feature.

 - Please don't send any binaries without asking first.

 - Please read the following documents carefully before reporting a bug or a
   problem you cannot solve:

    - the VICE documentation (you should have received it with the main
      distribution--if not, tell us);
      Online version - http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/vice_toc.html

    - the VICE wiki at http://vice-emu.pokefinder.org/

 - Before reporting a bug, please try a recent nightly build and check if your
   issue is already fixed. You can fine nightly builds for windows here:
   <SF-uploads via Travis-CI?>

 - When you report a bug, please try to be as accurate as possible and describe
   how it can be reproduced to the very detail. You should also tell us what
   machine you are running on, what operating system you are using as well as
   the version of Vice.

 - Please don't ask us how to transfer original C64 disk or tapes to your PC. To
   transfer disks, you can use the Star Commander (http://sta.c64.org/sc.html).

 - Please don't ask us where to find games for the emulator on the Internet.

 - Please don't ask us when the next version will be out, because we really
   don't know. We are trying to make at least one release per year, around
   christmas.

 - Please write in English.

 In any case, we would be really glad to receive your comments about VICE.

 The central place for bug reports is the bug tracker at sourceforge:
 https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/bugs/

 At sourceforge you can also submit feature requests:
 https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/feature-requests/

 The email address for feedback is: vice-emu-mail@lists.sourceforge.net

 Thanks!


 Copyright notice
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 VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator

    Core Team Members:
    1999-2024 Pottendo
    2005-2024 Marco van den Heuvel
    2007-2024 Fabrizio Gennari
    2009-2024 Groepaz
    2009-2024 Errol Smith
    2009-2024 Ingo Korb
    2010-2024 Olaf Seibert
    2011-2024 Marcus Sutton
    2011-2024 Kajtar Zsolt
    2016-2024 AreaScout
    2016-2024 Bas Wassink
    2017-2024 Michael C. Martin
    2018-2024 Christopher Phillips
    2019-2024 David Hogan
    2020-2024 Empathic Qubit
    2020-2024 Roberto Muscedere
    2021-2024 June Tate-Gans
    2021-2024 Pablo Roldan

    Inactive/Ex Team Members:
    2011-2016 Stefan Haubenthal
    2015-2016 BSzili
    1999-2016 Andreas Matthies
    2007-2015 Daniel Kahlin
    2012-2014 Benjamin 'BeRo' Rosseaux
    2011-2014 Ulrich Schulz
    2011-2014 Thomas Giesel
    2008-2014 Antti S. Lankila
    2006-2014 Christian Vogelgsang
    1998-2014 Dag Lem
    2000-2011 Spiro Trikaliotis
    2007-2011 Hannu Nuotio
    1998-2010 Andreas Boose
    1998-2010 Tibor Biczo
    2007-2010 M. Kiesel
    1999-2007 Andreas Dehmel
    2003-2005 David Hansel
    2000-2004 Markus Brenner
    1999-2004 Thomas Bretz
    1997-2001 Daniel Sladic
    1996-2001 Andre Fachat
    1996-1999 Ettore Perazzoli
    1993-1994, 1997-1999 Teemu Rantanen
    1993-1996 Jouko Valta
    1993-1994 Jarkko Sonninen

    Translation Team Members:
    2009-2017 Mikkel Holm Olsen
    2000-2017 Pottendo
    2011-2017 Manuel Antonio Rodriguez Bas
    2004-2017 Paul Dube
    2006-2017 Czirkos Zoltan
    2006-2017 Karai Csaba
    2001-2017 Andrea Musuruane
    2011-2016 Jesse Lee
    2005-2017 Marco van den Heuvel
    2011-2017 Jarek Sobolewski
    2010-2017 Michael Litvinov
    2000-2017 Peter Krefting
    2008-2017 Emir Akaydin

  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.
