VICE 2.4 Nov 2012

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       \________//   Versatile Commodore 8-bit Emulator

This is version 2.3 of VICE, the multi-platform C64, C128, VIC20, PET, PLUS4 and CBM-II emulator. This version can be compiled for MSDOS, Win32, RiscOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, AmigaOS, GP2X, Dingoo, Syllable, SkyOS and for most Unix systems provided with the X Window System version 11, R5 or later.

The following programs are included:

• x64, a C64 emulator;

• x64sc, a C64 emulator focused on accuracy;

• x64dtv, a C64 Direct-to-TV (DTV) emulator;

• x128, a C128 emulator;

• xvic, a VIC20 emulator;

• xpet, a PET emulator;

• xplus4, a PLUS4 emulator;

• xcbm2, a CBM-6x0/7x0 emulator;

• xcbm5x0, a CBM-5x0 emulator;

• vsid, a SID player;

• c1541, a stand-alone disk image maintenance utility;

• petcat, a CBM BASIC de-tokenizer;

• cartconv, a C64/C128 cartridge conversion program.

  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;

• doc/html/plain/NEWS, list of user-visible changes between this and older versions of VICE;

• doc/html/plain/BUGS, a list of the most important known bugs of this release (please read it before reporting bugs);

• doc/html/plain/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/html/plain/64doc.txt, documentation about the C64 internals;

• doc/html/plain/PETdoc.txt, documentation about the PET internals;

• doc/html/plain/cbm_basic_tokens.txt, a list of the CBM BASIC tokens, as supported by the petcat utility;

• doc/html/plain/serial.txt, description of the IEC serial bus used on the C64, VIC20 and C128;

• doc/html/plain/drive_info.txt, information about the CBM disk drives;

• doc/Readme.dos, MS-DOS specific documentation;

• doc/Readme.beos, BeOS specific documentation;

• doc/Win32-Howto.txt, how to compile the Win32 port.

• doc/NLS-Howto.txt, some documentation about Unix NLS support;

• doc/MSDOS-Howto.txt, how to compile the MSDOS port.

• doc/MSDOS-Ethernet-Howto.txt, how to compile the MSDOS port with ethernet support.

• doc/iec-bus.txt, overview of the VICE IEC bus emulation;

  For the latest news, have a look at the VICE home page:

  http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/

  New versions are made available quite often, so please stay tuned.

  Have fun!

  Copyright notice

  VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator

  Copyright C 1998-2012 Dag Lem Copyright C 1999-2012 Andreas Matthies Copyright C 1999-2012 Martin Pottendorfer Copyright C 2005-2012 Marco van den Heuvel Copyright C 2006-2012 Christian Vogelgsang Copyright C 2007-2012 Fabrizio Gennari Copyright C 2007-2012 Daniel Kahlin Copyright C 2008-2012 Antti S. Lankila Copyright C 2009-2012 Groepaz Copyright C 2009-2012 Ingo Korb Copyright C 2009-2012 Errol Smith Copyright C 2010-2012 Olaf Seibert Copyright C 2011-2012 Marcus Sutton Copyright C 2011-2012 Ulrich Schulz Copyright C 2011-2012 Stefan Haubenthal Copyright C 2011-2012 Thomas Giesel Copyright C 2011-2012 Kajtar Zsolt Copyright C 2012 Benjamin Rosseaux

  Copyright C 2000-2012 Spiro Trikaliotis Copyright C 2007-2011 Hannu Nuotio Copyright C 1998-2010 Andreas Boose Copyright C 1998-2010 Tibor Biczo Copyright C 2007-2010 M. Kiesel Copyright C 1999-2007 Andreas Dehmel Copyright C 2003-2005 David Hansel Copyright C 2000-2004 Markus Brenner

  Copyright C 1999-2004 Thomas Bretz Copyright C 1997-2001 Daniel Sladic Copyright C 1996-2001 André Fachat Copyright C 1996-1999 Ettore Perazzoli Copyright C 1993-1994, 1997-1999 Teemu Rantanen Copyright C 1993-1996 Jouko Valta Copyright C 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',PLUS4' PRINTER' andVIC20' directories are Copyright C by Commodore Business Machines.

  The ROM files in the C64DTV directory are Copyright C by Commodore Business Machines, as well as Mammoth Toys, a division of nsi ltd., Digital Concepts DC studios inc., Ironstone Partners ltd., and Toy:Lobster company ltd.