VICE 2.4 Nov 2012 _______________ | || || | || ||____________________________ | || || || || || | || || || | || ______|| | || || || |----|| || | || || || | || ------|| | ||____||_________||__________|| \ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \ // \________// Versatile Commodore 8-bit Emulator ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 André 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.