## (26 Jan 2002) Version 1.8

#### Current VICE team members: Daniel Sladic, Andreas Boose, Tibor Biczo, Dag Lem, Andreas Dehmel, Thomas Bretz, Andreas Matthies, Martin Pottendorfer, Markus Brenner, Spiro Trikaliotis.

# Quickfinder

- What is VICE?

- What is NEW with the 1.8 release? (This is definitely worth reading `:-)`

- The VICE Manuals online
- ...and the rest of the Docs.
- Due to the shut down of ml.org there is currently no Bug report form. For now please send a bug report via email to one of the addresses listed in the contact section. The list of already known BUGS is also available.
- What we are about TODO with it...
- Developers
- Download VICE
- Copyright - GNU Copyleft
- Contacts

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 The old version of the FAQ is already quite outdated.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 in its preliminary state.

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 Versatile Commodore Emulator, i.e. a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS or BeOS machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit Commodore computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20, all the PET models (except the SuperPET 9000, which is out of line anyway) 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:

- 64doc.txt contains the CPU instruction set and more on the C64
- PETdoc.txt contains PET information
- cbm_basic_tokens.txt is a listing of BASIC token values.
- drive_info.txt has CBM disk drive stuff
- serial.txt is an explanation of the serial IEC bus

# Copyright

    The VICE is copyrighted to Ettore Perazzoli, Daniel Sladic, Andreas Boose,
    Tibor Biczo, Dag Lem, Andreas Dehmel, Thomas Bretz, Andreas Matthies,
    Martin Pottendorfer, Teemu Rantanen, André Fachat.

    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:

- Tarball: vice-1.8.tar.gz

- New binary distributions:

- Binary for MS-DOS (Pentium-optimized): vice18.zip
Please use the '-d' option if you are using pkzip, to unpack the archive with the full directory tree. Otherwise you get error messages about some ROMs (kernal, basic etc) not being found.
- Binary for MS-Windows 32bit (Pentium-optimized): WinVICE-1.8.zip
- Binary for Acorn RISC OS systems: vice-riscos1_8.zip
- Binary for OS/2 systems: vice-os2-1.8.zip. Additional information can be found at the Vice/2 homepage.
- Binary for BeOS x86 systems: BeVICE-1.8.x86.zip

- Old binary distributions:

- Binary for MS-DOS (Pentium-optimized): vice17.zip
Please use the '-d' option if you are using pkzip, to unpack the archive with the full directory tree. Otherwise you get error messages about some ROMs (kernal, basic etc) not being found.
- Binary for MS-Windows 32bit (Pentium-optimized): WinVICE-1.7.zip
- Binary for Acorn RISC OS systems: vice-riscos1_7.zip
- Binary for OS/2 systems: vice-os2-1.7.zip. Additional information can be found at the Vice/2 homepage.
- Binary for BeOS x86 systems: BeVICE-1.7.x86.zip

The files are taken from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE.
Note: Some people reported problems accessing the FUNET FTP server. If this happens to you, try the FUNET HTTP interface http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE.

# Contacts

Before contacting us, have a look at the VICE knowledge base (which is under construction at the moment) 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.

- Generic questions, bug reports, suggestions etc.: The Vice team (vice-devel@firenze.linux.it)
- Disk drive, tape and cartridge emulation: Andreas Boose (boose@linux.rz.fh-hannover.de)

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.

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