VICE - the Versatile Commodore Emulator

# - the Versatile Commodore Emulator

# What is VICE?

VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, Syllable or Mac OS X machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C64DTV, the C128, the VIC20, practically all PET models, the PLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka C610/C510). An extra emulator is provided for C64 expanded with the CMD SuperCPU.

# News

(24 December 2024) Version 3.9 released

- What is NEW in the latest release? (This is definitely worth reading `:-)`
- VICE has moved its source repository to public services provided by SourceForge. You can find it at https://sf.net/projects/vice-emu. We like to thank the SourceForge staff for that help.

We always 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-emu-mail@lists.sourceforge.net or catch us in #vice-dev on Libera.Chat IRC. Anyone interested in helping development of VICE is welcome. Please contact us to avoid doing something that someone else has done already. `(-:` (You might also want to have a look at our TODO list)

There is also an official-inoffical VICE Discord server that some of us idle in, feel free to join and say hi.

Before contacting us, have a look at the the VICE Manual 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. The list of already known BUGS is also available.

- Bug reports, suggestions, support requests should be directed to the SourceForge trackers at https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/bugs/. This way, you, the users, and we, the developers, can track what has been reported and what has been already fixed.

- You may also sent the report to the mailing address of the Vice team at (vice-emu-mail@lists.sourceforge.net). 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.

## Download VICE

You can download the latest VICE distribution here. If you want to help improving the official ports and/or want to provide binaries, please get in touch with us. Occasionally we might upload unofficial test builds here.

### Source distributions

- Tarball: vice-3.9.tar.gz

### Binary distributions

We recommend the GTK3 user interface over SDL2.

#### Windows

- Download latest ad hoc build (via github - use this when reporting bugs, please)
- Download VICE 3.9 (64bit GTK3)
- Download VICE 3.9 (64bit SDL2)

- Older binaries for Windows systems can be found here.

#### Apple Silicon Mac (macOS 12.0+)

- Download VICE 3.9 (GTK3)
- Download VICE 3.9 (SDL2)

#### Intel Silicon Mac (macOS 12.0+)

- Download VICE 3.9 (GTK3)
- Download VICE 3.9 (SDL2)

- Older binaries for macOS systems can be found here.

### Old binary distributions

- Binaries for Android systems: Please visit the Android download page.
- Binary for Amiga based or derived systems: Please visit the Amiga download page.
- Binary for MS-DOS (Pentium-optimized): vice31.zip Please use the '-d' option if you are using pkzip, to unpack the archive with the full directory tree.
- Binary for BeOS systems: Please visit the BeOS download page.
- Binary for QNX systems: Please visit the QNX download page.
- Binary for OS/2 systems: Vice2-3.1.zip.
- Binary for Solaris / SunOS systems: Please visit the Solaris / SunOS download page.
- Binary for SCO based systems: Please visit the SCO download page.
- Binary for Darwin based systems: Please visit the darwin download page.
- Binary for NextStep / OpenStep / Rhapsody based systems: Please visit the *Step download page.
- Binary for Sortix based systems: Please visit the Sortix download page.
- Binary for Syllable systems: SDLVICE-syllable-3.1.application (Not available yet)
- Binary for Atari Mint systems: SDLVICE-3.1-mint.tgz (not available yet) Unpack in /usr/local
- Binary for Minix 3.x systems: vice-minix-3.1.tar.bz2 (Not available yet) Unpack in /usr/local
- Binary for GNU Hurd systems: VICE-3.1-i386-hurd.tar.bz2 (Not available yet) Unpack in /usr/local
- Binary for SkyOS systems: SDLVICE-3.1-SkyOS.pkg (Not available yet) Unpack in /usr/local
- Binary for other Unix based systems: Please visit the Unix download page.

- Binaries of even older releases can be found on http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE.

# Related resources

## General

- VICE Printer Output to Postscript (VICEtoPS): Homepage
- VICE Printer Output to PNG (vmps801): Homepage

The binary monitor interface is stable now. Examples of projects using it:

- C64 Studio is a IDE (Windows based)
- vice bridge .net is a .net library for implementing binary monitor support
  Modern VICE PDB monitor is based on the above
- IceBro Lite is a debugger (uses a custom SDL interface)
- vscode-cc65-debugger is a debugger (based on VSCODE)
- vs64 is a debugger (based on VSCODE)
- VICE PDP Monitor is a debugger that comes with a custom version of ACME

## MS-Windows

- CBM4Win driver and OpenCBM library: Homepage
- Parallel port joystick driver for MS-Windows 2000/XP/98/Me: Github
- Precompiled FFMPEG video/audio encoder for MS-Windows: Download

## Linux

- CBM4Linux kernel driver and OpenCBM library: Homepage (This has been integrated into OpenCBM)
- FFMPEG video/audio codec library: Homepage

# Developers

Current VICE team members: Pottendo, Marco van den Heuvel, Fabrizio Gennari, Groepaz, Errol Smith, Ingo Korb, Olaf Seibert, Marcus Sutton, Kajtar Zsolt, AreaScout, Bas Wassink, Michael C. Martin, Christopher Phillips, David Hogan, Empathic Qubit, Roberto Muscedere, June Tate-Gans, Pablo Roldan.

Of course our warm thanks go to everyone who has helped us in developing VICE during these past few years. For a more detailed list look in the documentation.

# Copyright

The VICE is copyrighted to: Pottendo, Marco van den Heuvel, Fabrizio Gennari, Groepaz, Errol Smith, Ingo Korb, Olaf Seibert, Marcus Sutton, Kajtar Zsolt, AreaScout, Bas Wassink, Michael C. Martin, Christopher Phillips, David Hogan, Empathic Qubit, Roberto Muscedere, June Tate-Gans, Pablo Roldan, Stefan Haubenthal, BSzili, Andreas Matthies, Daniel Kahlin, Benjamin 'BeRo' Rosseaux, Ulrich Schulz, Thomas Giesel, Antti S. Lankila, Christian Vogelgsang, Dag Lem, Spiro Trikaliotis, Hannu Nuotio, Andreas Boose, Tibor Biczo, M. Kiesel, Andreas Dehmel, David Hansel, Markus Brenner, Thomas Bretz, Daniel Sladic, Andre Fachat, Ettore Perazzoli, Teemu Rantanen, Jouko Valta, Jarkko Sonninen, Mikkel Holm Olsen, Manuel Antonio Rodriguez Bas, Paul Dube, Czirkos Zoltan, Karai Csaba, Andrea Musuruane, Jesse Lee, Jarek Sobolewski, Michael Litvinov, Peter Krefting, Emir Akaydin.

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.

# Winner of the Innovation Prize 2008

| We are proud that VICE has been selected as the "best software innovation of the last few years" of the Dutch Commodore user group. Fabrizio Gennari was able to attend the ceremony and took the medal in the name of the whole VICE team. We are very proud of it, as it tells us how much you, the users, value our work. Thank you very much!