New Version Of The 8bit Commodore Emulator Vice

Do you like Commodore’s 8bit machines? odds are the answer is yes for at least one of them for most people, the Vic20 or C64 most likely, well this emulates them from the Vic20 through the PET to the C128. there are versions available for Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X, SkyOS and Mac OS X so that should be everyone reading this that can run it then so lets see waht awaits you in this release:

General:
• VICE development has moved to public services:
  http://sf.net/projects/vice-emu
  You can read the latest development in the Subversion repository, file bug reports, and similar things. Check it out!
• New Openserver 5.x, Openserver 6.x and Unixware ports.
• New AROS64 port.
• New QNX 4.x port.
• New HPUX (HPPA and IA64) ports.
• New SkyOS port.
• New Atari Mint port.
• New Solaris Express aka OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11 port.

C64/C128 changes:
• Improved $01 behaviour with regards to unused bit fall-off.
• New experimental NEOS and Amiga mouse support.
• Added a working RTC to the emulation of the IDE64 cartridge.
• New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size and double scan.
• Added support for the Action Replay 4 and StarDos cartridges.
• Improved REU compatibility
• Fixed CPU timing bug introduced in 1.22 (demo “Borderless”).
• Fixed bugs in the CIA emulation (demo “So-phisticated”, W. Lorenz testsuite).
• Fixed various bugs in VIC-II emulation: Sprite x-positioning, Latch X/Y, video mode changes, DEN bit handling, raster IRQ, NTSC sprites and sprites in full/debugging border mode (list of fixed demos/games too long to mention here).
• RESTORE key is handled differently now, fixing an NMI bug because the NMI was asserted too long before.

VIC20 changes:
• Added unconnected c-bus floating byte support.
• New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size and double scan.

PET changes:
• Added support for toggling CB2 sound output line.

PLUS4 changes:
• New more precise PAL emulation, works only with double size and double scan.

Drive changes:
• Fixed block allocation and interleave.

Unix changes:
• Broken DGA1/DGA2 code removed
• XRandR fullscreen implemented for all (but CRTC/VDC) videochips.
• XRandR/Fullscreen can now toggle the Statusbar/Menu
• Fixed unix mouse for single sized display.
• Fixed mouse grab and xaw menu popup.
• After a CPU jam user can select to resume emulation without reset.

MS-Windows changes:
• Fixed the reverse logic of the -confirmexit/+confirmexit and -singlecpu/+singlecpu command-line options.
• Added the ability to copy and paste text from and to the VICE window.
• Added the ability to paste text into the VICE window by right-clicking on the VICE window.
• Keyboard shortcuts are definable in the configuration file win_shortscuts.vsc
• After a CPU jam user can select to resume emulation without reset.
• Fixed volume slider behaviour when switching fullscreen mode.
• Key repeat is eliminated OS-wise. This way, the RESTORE key is not used with autorepeat.

BeOS changes:
• Fixed to also run on Haiku.
• Lots of fixes to the dailogs.
• Fixed the joystick system.
• Added warning dialog when the monitor is accessed without having an open console window.
• Added the ability to copy and paste text from and to the VICE window.

AmigaOS changes:
• Fixed the reverse logic of the -confirmexit/+confirmexit command-line options.
• Added the ability to copy and paste text from and to the VICE window.
• After a CPU jam user can select to resume emulation without reset.

OS/2 changes:
• After a CPU jam user can select to resume emulation without reset.

Miscellaneous changes:
• Added support for more 3rd party basic extenders to petcat.
• Extended BMP saving to support 24bit.
• Fixed the joystick code of all emulators to handle state changes on both joysticks at the same time.
• New monitor commands and features.
• New memmap feature which allows tracking of memory accesses, activated by the configure option –enable-memmap.
• Fixed bug in ffmpeg/FFV1 driver. Should be really lossless now.

Download from the homepage or below.

Vice For Windows (4.9 MiB, 63 Downloads) - Version 2.0

Vice For Dos (8.2 MiB, 46 Downloads) - Version 2.0

Vice Source Code (7.1 MiB, 45 Downloads) - Version 2.0

Vice For Acorn RISC OS (4.6 MiB, 44 Downloads) - Version 2.0

Vice For GP2X (5.2 MiB, 38 Downloads) - Version 2.0

Vice For M68K AmigaOS 3.x (4.6 MiB, 40 Downloads) - Version 2.0

Vice For PPC AmigaOS 4.x (7.7 MiB, 45 Downloads) - Version 2.0

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