VICE 1.14 Jan 2004
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This is version 1.14 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 and for most Unix system provided
with the X Window System version 11, R5 or later.
The following programs are included:
- x64, a C64 emulator;
- x128, a C128 emulator;
- xvic, a VIC20 emulator;
- xpet, a PET emulator;
- xplus4, a PLUS4 emulator;
- xcbm2, a CBM-II emulator;
- c1541, a stand-alone disk image maintenance utility;
- petcat, a CBM BASIC de-tokenizer.
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/iec-bus.txt, overview of the VICE IEC bus emulation;
For the latest news, have a look at the VICE home page:
http://www.viceteam.org/
New versions are made available quite often, so please stay tuned.
Have fun!
Copyright notice
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VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator
Copyright C 1998-2004 Andreas Boose
Copyright C 1998-2004 Dag Lem
Copyright C 1998-2004 Tibor Biczo
Copyright C 1999-2004 Andreas Dehmel
Copyright C 1999-2004 Thomas Bretz
Copyright C 1999-2004 Andreas Matthies
Copyright C 1999-2004 Martin Pottendorfer
Copyright C 2000-2004 Markus Brenner
Copyright C 2000-2004 Spiro Trikaliotis
Copyright C 2003-2004 David Hansel
Copyright C 1997-2001 Daniel Sladic
Copyright C 1996-1999 Ettore Perazzoli
Copyright C 1996-1999 André Fachat
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.
