- 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 2019) Version 3.4 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 freenode 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)

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. Ideally, 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

Binary distributions

Windows

We link to nightly builds of WinVICE provided by pokefinder.org, and also provide the VICE 3.4 nightly build from the the date of the release.

macOS (10.9+)

On macOS, the SDL2 version is currently recommended for working USB gamepad / joystick support.

Old binary distributions

Windows

Binary for Windows systems: Please visit the Windows download page.

OSX

Binary for Mac OS X systems: Please visit the Mac OS X download page.

Android

Binaries for Android systems: Please visit the Android download page.

MS-DOS

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.

Other

Older binary distributions

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

MS-Windows

CBM4Win driver and OpenCBM library: Homepage

Parallel port joystick driver for MS-Windows 2000/XP/98/Me: Github

Precompiled FFMPEG video/audio codec library for MS-Windows: Download

Linux

CBM4Linux kernel driver and OpenCBM library: Homepage

FFMPEG video/audio codec library: Homepage

Developers

Current VICE team members: Martin Pottendorfer, 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.

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 Martin Pottendorfer, 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, 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, André Fachat, Ettore Perazzoli, Teemu Rantanen, Jouko Valta, Jarkko Sonninen, Mikkel Holm Olsen, Manuel Antonio Rodriguez Bas, Paul Dubé, 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.



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