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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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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, MS-Windows and Unix ports. He rewrote the C128 emulation
adding Z80 mode, C64 mode and function ROM support, wrote the
screenshot and the event system and started the plus4 emulator.
Restructured the serial bus emulation and added realdrive and
rawdrive support.
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Dag Lem implemented the reSID SID emulation
engine and video hardware scaling.
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Tibor Biczo improved the MS-Windows port
and plus4 emulation.
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Andreas Dehmel wrote the Acorn RISC OS 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 and
implemented video/audio capture support.
Improved history recording/playback and implented support for
video recording and netlink feature. Various bug(fixe)s. ;-)
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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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Spiro Trikaliotis wrote the Win32
console implementation for the built-in monitor, corrected some
REU related bugs, added support for the TFE and RR-Net
(cs8900a), and wrote some further patches.
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Markus Brenner added VDC emulation to x128
and added support for some more cartridges.
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David Hansel wrote the Star NL10 printer driver, implemented IEC
devices and improved the tape emulation.
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Marco van den Heuvel Translated the UI to Dutch. Made the
Internationalization support for the Win32 and Amiga ports. Wrote
the GEORAM and RamCart cartridge code. Wrote the c64 +60K, +256K and
256K memory expansions code. Wrote the pet REU code. Wrote the plus4
memory expansions code. Made the ethernet support for the Msdos
port. Maintains the RiscOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, SkyOS, Solaris,
Openserver, Unixware, HPUX, GP2X, Minix 3.x, Amiga, ppc-BeOS and
newly resurrected OS/2 binary ports. Added new .crt support. Added
new screenshot formats. Added new sound recording support. Added
SIDcart support for pet, plus4 and vic20. Improved the MMC64
emulation. Added 2 MHz mode for x128. And lots of other fixes and
improvements.
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Christian Vogelgsang maintains the Mac OS X port. Added Intel Mac
support and universal binary creation. Wrote the build scripts for
all external Mac libraries and the bindist bundle tool. Improved
the TFE chip emulation. Added some Gtk+ fixes.
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Fabrizio Gennari added some improvements to the MSDOS- and GTK
port.
Former team members:
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Thomas Bretz
Copyright (C) 1999-2004
Started the OS/2 port.
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Daniel Sladic
Copyright (C) 1997-2001
Started the work on hardware-level 1541 emulation and wrote the new
monitor introduced with VICE 0.15.
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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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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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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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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 and added
aRts sound support.
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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 (old) 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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Peter Karlsson provided the swedish UI translations.
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Paul Dubé provided the french translation for the Unix ports.
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Nathan Huizinga added support for Expert and Super Snapshot carts.
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Andrea Musuruane provided the italian UI translations.
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Flooder provided the polish translation for the Unix ports
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Michael Klein contributed the ESD sound driver, basic support for
the OPENCBM library and some other 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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Philip Timmermann did a lot of research about the VIC-II colors.
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John Selck improved the video rendering and
added the fast PAL emulation. Implemented new color generation
based on P. Timmermanns knowledge.
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webulator provided win32 drag & drop support
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Robert Willie added some additional
commands to the fsdevice emulation.
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Kajtar Zsolt wrote the IDE64 interface
emulation and did some small fixes.
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ck! provided a win32 cbm character font.
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Dirk Jagdmann wrote the Catweasel sound driver.
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Maciej Witkowiak did some IDE64 and C1541 fixes.
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Roberto Muscedere improved support for REL files.
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Rami Rasanen rewrote the VIC20 sound code.
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iAN CooG contributed various small patches.
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Mike Dawson provided the GP2X port and co-maintains the GP2X
ports.
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Mathias Roslund provided the AmigaOS4 port and co-maintains the
AmigaOS ports.
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Eliseo Bianchi provided the italian Amiga translations.
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Johan Samuelsson provided the swedish Amiga translations.
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Harry "Piru" Sintonen provided lots of fixes and improvements for
the Amiga ports.
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Ilkka "itix" Lehtoranta provided the routines for the
cybergraphics support for the Amiga ports.
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Wolfgang Moser provided small optimization fixes
to the GCR code.
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Peter Gordon provided support for native AmigaOS4 compiling.
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Bernd Kortz provided some fixes for ZETA and the ZETA binary
package.
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Andr351 'JoBBo' Siegel provided the native morphos icons.
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Markus Stehr provided the MMC64 emulation.
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Gunnar Ruthenberg provided some VIC-II enhancements and improved
the win32 port.
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Hannu Nuotio Added experimental NEOS and Amiga mouse support.
Fixed mouse support for single size in unix. Fixed mouse grab and
menu popup for xaw. Added new monitor commands and features. Added
the memmap feature.
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M. Kiesel Added new monitor commands and features.
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Daniel Kahlin Added new monitor commands and features.
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Groepaz/Hitmen Added new more precise PAL emulation. Added support
for the Action Replay 4 and StarDos cartridges.
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Ingo Korb Corrected block allocation and interleave for
c1541/vdrive.
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Georg Feil Added support for toggling CB2 sound output line in
the PET emulator.
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Greg King Added a working RTC to the emulation of the IDE64
cartridge.
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Thomas Giesel Added new monitor commands and features.
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Marcus Sutton Made some console, dialog and joystick fixes for
the BeOS port.
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Lutz Sammer
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Ralph Mason
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George Caswell
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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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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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