VICE(1)

NAME
VICE - Versatile Commodore Emulator and Virtual Commodore Environment

DESCRIPTION
VICE is a multi-platform emulator of the Commodore PET, CBM-II, VIC20, C64, C64DTV, C128 and Plus4 8-bit computers. The emulators run as separate programs, but have the same user interface, share the same settings and support the same file formats. Also some external utilities are provided.

VICE is made up of the following programs:

x64 a fast Commodore 64 emulator

x64sc
    an accurate Commodore 64 emulator

xscpu64
    an accurate SCPU64 emulator

x64dtv
    a C64DTV emulator

x128
    a Commodore 128 emulator

xvic
    a Commodore VIC20 emulator

xpet
    a Commodore PET emulator

xplus4
    a Commodore Plus4 emulator

xcbm2
    a Commodore CBM-II (6x0/7x0) emulator

xcbm5x0
    a Commodore CBM-II (5x0) emulator

vsid [*]
    a SID player

c1541 [*]
    a stand-alone disk image maintenance utility;

petcat [*]
    a Commodore BASIC (de)tokenizer;

cartconv [*]
    a cartridge file (bin<--->crt) converter;

Programs marked with [*] have their own man pages.

Any of the above programs can be run with the --help option to get a list of command-line options; there are too many to list here. You might want to pipe the output through a pager, e.g.

x64 --help | less

The whole documentation for these programs is available in HTML format; the main file should be installed on your system as /usr/doc/vice-3.8/html/index.html

The same documentation is available in PDF form as /usr/doc/vice-3.8/vice.pdf, or by selecting Help -> Browse Manual from within the emulator.

For up to date news about VICE, have a look at the official home page at

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

SEE ALSO
petcat(1), cartconv(1), c1541(1)

AUTHORS
Marco van den Heuvel <blackystardust68@yahoo.com>
Fabrizio Gennari <fabrizio.ge@tiscalinet.it>
Groepaz <groepaz@gmx.net>
Errol Smith <strobey@users.sourceforge.net>
Olaf Seibert <rhialto@falu.nl>
Marcus Sutton <loggedoubt@gmail.com>
Kajtar Zsolt <soci@c64.rulez.org>
AreaScout <areascout@gmx.at>
Bas Wassink <b.wassink@ziggo.nl>
Michael C. Martin <mcmartin@gmail.com>
David Hogan <david.q.hogan@gmail.com>
Martin Pottendorfer <pottendo@gmx.net>
Stefan Haubenthal <polluks@users.sourceforge.net>
BSzili <col.lawrence@gmail.com>
Andreas Matthies <andreas.matthies@gmx.net>
Daniel Kahlin <daniel@kahlin.net>
Benjamin 'BeRo' Rosseaux <benjamin@rosseaux.com>
Ulrich Schulz <peiselulli@t-online.de>
Thomas Giesel <skoe@directbox.com>
Ingo Korb <ingo@akana.de>
Antti S. Lankila <alankila@bel.fi>
Christian Vogelgsang <chris@vogelgsang.org>
Dag Lem <resid@nimrod.no>
Spiro Trikaliotis <Spiro.Trikaliotis@gmx.de>
Hannu Nuotio <hannu.nuotio@tut.fi>
Andreas Boose <viceteam@t-online.de>
Tibor Biczo <crown@mail.matav.hu>
M. Kiesel <mayne@users.sourceforge.net>
Andreas Dehmel <zarquon@t-online.de>
David Hansel <david@hansels.net>
Markus Brenner <markus@brenner.de>
Thomas Bretz <tbretz@ph.tum.de>
Daniel Sladic <sladic@eecg.toronto.edu>
André Fachat <fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Ettore Perazzoli <ettore@comm2000.it>
Teemu Rantanen <tvr@cs.hut.fi>
Jouko Valta <jopi@stekt.oulu.fi>
Jarkko Sonninen <sonninen@lut.fi>
Mikkel Holm Olsen <vice-dk@symlink.dk>
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez Bas <formater@winuaespanol.com>
Paul Dubé
Czirkos Zoltan <cirix@fw.hu>
Karai Csaba <cskarai@freemail.hu>
Andrea Musuruane <musuruan@bmm.it>
Jesse Lee <interpreters.jesse@gmail.com>
Jarek Sobolewski <r@sledinmay.com>
Michael Litvinov <litvinov.m@i.ua>
Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Emir Akaydin (aka: Skate) <emir@akaydin.com>
with several contributions from other people around the world; see the HTML documentation for more information.