VICE 1.5 July 2000
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This is version 1.5 of VICE, the multi-platform C64, C128, VIC20, PET
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;
- 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;
- NEWS, list of user-visible changes between this and older
versions of VICE;
- BUGS, a list of the most important known bugs of this release
(please read it before reporting bugs);
- 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/64doc.txt, documentation about the C64 internals;
- doc/PETdoc.txt, documentation about the PET internals;
- doc/cbm_basic_tokens.txt, a list of the CBM BASIC tokens, as
supported by the petcat utility;
- doc/serial.txt, description of the IEC serial bus used on the C64,
VIC20 and C128;
- doc/mnemonics.txt, alphabetical list of all the G65SC802 and
G65SC816 opcodes;
- doc/drive_info.txt, information about the CBM disk drives;
- doc/Evaluation, VICE evaluation query form: please fill this in
and send it to tell us what you think about this project.
- doc/Readme.dos, MS-DOS specific documentation;
- doc/Win32-Howto.txt, how to compile the Win32 port.
For the latest news, have a look at the VICE home page:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dsladic/vice/vice.html
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 © 1996-1999 Ettore Perazzoli
Copyright © 1997-2000 Daniel Sladic
Copyright © 1998-2000 Andreas Boose
Copyright C 1998-2000 Dag Lem
Copyright C 1998-2000 Tibor Biczo
Copyright C 1999-2000 Andreas Dehmel
Copyright C 1999-2000 Thomas Bretz
Copyright C 1999-2000 Andreas Matthies
Copyright C 1999-2000 Martin Pottendorfer
Copyright C 1996-1999 André Fachat
Copyright C 1993-1994, 1997-1999 Teemu Rantanen
Copyright © 1993-1996 Jouko Valta
Copyright © 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' and
`VIC20' directories are Copyright C by Commodore Business Machines.
