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VICE derives from X64, the first Commodore 64 emulator for the X Window
System. Here is an informal list of the people who were mostly involved
in the development of X64 and VICE:
The VICE core team:
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Daniel Sladic started the work on hardware-level 1541 emulation
and wrote the new monitor introduced with VICE 0.15.
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Andreas Boose gave lots of
information and bug reports about the VIC-II, the 6510 and the
CIAs; moreover, he wrote several test-routines that were used
to improve the emulation. He also added cartridge support and
has been the main head behind the drive and datasette emulation
since version 0.15. Also added several UI elements to the
MSDOS and MS-Windows ports. He rewrote the C128 emulation
adding Z80 mode, C64 mode and function ROM support.
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Dag Lem implemented the reSID SID emulation
engine.
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Tibor Biczo improved the MS-Windows port.
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Andreas Dehmel wrote the Acorn RISC OS port.
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Thomas Bretz responsible for the OS/2 port.
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Andreas Matthies improved the
datasette support, the VIC20 video emulation and some ui stuff
in the Win32 and MSDOS port. He also wrote the BeOS port.
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Martin Pottendorfer
Implemented Gnome Port based on Oliver Schaertels GTK+ port
Added support code for internationalization based on gettext
Translated the Unix Port to German
Implemented the fliplists + ui (unix).
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Markus Brenner added VDC emulation to x128
and added support for some more cartridges.
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Spiro Trikaliotis wrote the Win32
console implementation for the built-in monitor and provided
some further patches.
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Marco van den Heuvel Translated the UI to Dutch.
Internationalization support for the Win32 port. Wrote the
GEORAM and RamCart code. Wrote the c64 +60K and 256K
expansions code. Made the ethernet support for the Msdos
port. Maintains the QNX 6.x, Solaris and newly resurrected
OS/2 binary ports. Added new .crt carts support. Added
new screenshot formats. And lots of other fixes.
Former team members:
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Ettore Perazzoli
Copyright (C) 1996-1999
Made the 6510, VIC-II, VIC-I and CRTC emulations, part of the
hardware-level 1541 emulation, speed optimizations, bug fixes,
the event-driven cycle-exact engine, the Xt/Xaw/Xfwf-based GUI
for X11, a general code reorganization, the new resource
handling, most of the documentation. He also wrote the MS-DOS
port and the initial MS-Windows port (well, somebody had to do
it).
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André Fachat
Copyright (C) 1996-2001
Wrote the PET and CBM-II emulators, the CIA and VIA emulation,
the IEEE488 interface, implemented the IEC serial bus in `xvic'
and made tons of bug fixes.
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Teemu Rantanen
Copyright (C) 1993-1994, 1997-1999
Implemented the SID emulation and the trap-based disk drive and
serial bus implementation; added support for multiple display
depths under X11. Also wrote `c1541'
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Jouko Valta
Copyright (C) 1993-1996
Wrote `petcat' and `c1541', `T64' handling, user service and
maintenance (most of the work in x64 0.3.x was made by him);
retired from the project in July 96, after VICE 0.10.0.
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Jarkko Sonninen
Copyright (C) 1993-1994
He was the founder of the project, wrote the old version of the
6502 emulation and the XDebugger, and retired from the project
after x64 0.2.1.
External contributors:
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Michael Schwendt helped with the
SID (audio) chip emulation, bringing important suggestions and bug
reports, as well as the wave tables and filter emulation from his
SIDplay emulator.
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Christian Bauer wrote
the very interesting "VIC article" from which we got invaluable
information about the VIC-II chip: without this, the VIC-II
implementation would have not been possible.
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Wolfgang Lorenz wrote an excellent 6510 test suite that helped us
to debug the CPU emulation.
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Giuliano Procida is the maintainer
of the VICE
deb package for the Debian distribution, and also
helped proofreading the documentation.
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Marko Mäkelä wrote lots of CPU documentation.
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Chris Sharp wrote the AIX sound driver.
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Krister Walfridsson implemented joystick and sound support for
NetBSD.
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Mattias Engdegård got non-default depths to work.
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Peter Andrew Felvegi aka Petschy
fixed a couple of bugs in the fast serial emulation.
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Olaf Seibert contributed some PET, and disk drive patches.
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Daniel Fandrich contributed some disk drive patches.
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Heiko Selber contributed some VIC20 I/O patches.
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Steven Tieu added initial support for 16/24 bpp X11 displays.
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Alexander Lehmann added complete support for all the VIC20 memory
configurations for the old VICE 0.12.
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Lionel Ulmer implemented joystick support for Linux and a first
try of a SID emulation for SGI machines.
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Bernhard Kuhn made some joystick improvements for Linux.
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Gerhard Wesp contributed the
extract command in c1541.
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Ricardo Ferreira contributed the
unlynx and system commands in c1541.
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Tomi Ollila donated
findpath.c.
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Richard Hable contributed the initial version of the REU
Emulation.
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Vesa-Matti Puro wrote the very first 6502 CPU
emulator in x64 0.1.0. That was the beginning of the story...
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Dan Miner contributed some patches to the fast disk drive
emulation.
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Frank Prindle contributed some patches.
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Peter Weighill gave many ideas and contributed the ROM patcher.
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Dominique Strigl, Craig Jackson and Lasse Jyrkinen
contributed miscellaneous patches in the old X64 times.
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Per Olofsson digitalized the C64 colors used in the default
palette.
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Paul David Doherty wrote
zip2disk, on which the Zipcode support in c1541 is based.
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Robert H. Forsman Jr., Brian Totty and Robert W. McMullen
provided the widget set for implementing the
Xaw GUI.
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote
Allegro, the graphics and audio library used in the MS-DOS version.
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Peter Schepers contributed a document describing the G64 image
format.
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Oliver Schaertel wrote the X11 full screen, parts of custom ROM
set support and 1351 mouse emulation for unix.
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Luca Montecchiani contributed a new Unix joystick driver.
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Dirk Farin rewrote the MITSHM code.
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Manfred Spraul wrote the MS-Windows text lister.
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Eric provided the french translation for the Unix ports.
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Andrea Musuruane provided the italian translation for the Unix
ports
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Michael Klein contributed the ESD sound driver and some patches.
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David Holz provided a label file which gives the built-in monitor
the labels for the C64.
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Lasse Öörni contributed the Windows Multimedia sound driver
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Frank König contributed the Win32 joystick autofire feature.
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John Selck wrote the fast PAL emulation.
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webulator provided win32 drag & drop support
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ck! provided a win32 cbm character font.
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Lutz Sammer
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Ralph Mason
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George Caswell
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Per Olofsson
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Jasper Phillips
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Luca Forcucci
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Asger Alstrup
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Bernhard Schwall
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Salvatore Valente
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Arthur Hagen
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Douglas Carmichael
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Ferenc Veres
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Andrea Musuruane
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Frank Reichel
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Ullrich von Bassewitz
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Holger Busse
Last but not least, a very special thank to Andreas Arens, Lutz Sammer,
Edgar Tornig, Christian Bauer, Wolfgang Lorenz, Miha Peternel and Per
Håkan Sundell for writing cool emulators to compete with. :-)
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