The VICE

[NEW] (25 Jul 2008) Version 2.0

Current VICE team members: Andreas Boose, Tibor Biczo, Dag Lem, Andreas Dehmel, Andreas Matthies, Martin Pottendorfer, Spiro Trikaliotis, David Hansel, Markus Brenner, Marco van den Heuvel, Christian Vogelgsang, Fabrizio Gennari.

Quickfinder

Unfortunately we no longer have the time to maintain a FAQ or other extra documents. The old version of the FAQ is already quite outdated.
Anyway, we started setting up a new FAQ which can be found at the VICE knowledge base.

Anyway, we probably need more help to keep all things going, so here is the usual call for volunteers... ;-) If you like to join our group, and help us in any way , please send a mail to vice-devel@firenze.linux.it.

What is VICE?

VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X, SkyOS or Mac OS X machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20, almost all PET models, the PLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka C610).

If you have any comments or bug reports, please contact us at one of the addresses given below.

VICE is under constant change. Anyone interested in helping development of VICE is welcome. Please contact us to avoid doing something that someone else has done already. (-:

Of course our warm thanks go to everyone who has helped us in developing VICE during these past few years. 

Documents

Here are some documents that come with VICE:

Copyright 

The VICE is copyrighted to Andreas Boose, Tibor Biczo, Dag Lem,
Andreas Dehmel, Andreas Matthies, Martin Pottendorfer, Spiro Trikaliotis,
Marco van den Heuvel, Christian Vogelgsang, Fabrizio Gennari,
Markus Brenner, David Hansel, Thomas Bretz, Daniel Sladic, Ettore Perazzoli,
André Fachat, Teemu Rantanen, Jouko Valta, Jarkko Sonninen.

VICE 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.

VICE 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.

Download VICE

You can download the latest VICE distributions here. Some ports may not be available at the release date.

  • Source distributions:

  • New binary distributions:
  • Old binary distributions:
    • The files are taken from http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE.

    Related resources

  • General
  • MS-Windows
  • Linux
  • BeOS

    • Contacts

    VICE has moved its source repository to public services provided by SourceForge. You can find it at http://sf.net/projects/vice-emu. We like to thank the SourceForge staff for that help.

    Before contacting us, have a look at the VICE knowledge base if your question is answered there. Keep in mind that we work on VICE in our spare-time, so the more time we don't need to answer the same questions over and over again, the more time we have to improve the emulation itself. On the other hand, that does not mean that you should not contact us, especially if you find bugs or have suggestions which might improve the emulation.

    Please put the word VICE in all capitals in your subject line (e.g. VICE fails to run game XXX). This helps mail splitting and reduces chances that your message is unintentionally deleted, forgotten or lost.