The software program VICE, standing for ''VersatIle Commodore Emulator'', is a

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and cross platform emulator for Commodore's

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computers. It runs on Linux,

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, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, Mac OS X, OS/2, RISC OS, QNX, GP2X, Pandora (console),

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, and

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host machines. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public License since 2004. VICE for

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(Win32) prior to v3.3 were known as WinVICE, the OS/2 variant is called Vice/2, and the emulator running on BeOS is called BeVICE.

History

The development of VICE began in 1993 by a Finnish programmer Jarkko Sonninen, who was the founder of the project. Sonninen retired from the project in 1994. VICE 2.1, released on December 19, 2008, emulates the

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, VIC-20, Commodore Plus/4, C64 Direct-to-TV (with its additional video modes) and all the Commodore PET models including the

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but excluding the 'non-standard' features of the SuperPET 9000. WinVICE supports digital

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s via a

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driver, and, with a CatWeasel

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card, is planned to perform hardware SID playback (requires optional SID chip installed in socket). VICE was one of the most widely used emulators of the Commodore 8-bit personal computers. It is also one of the few usable Commodore emulators to exist on free Unix-based platforms, including most Linux and BSD distributions. VICE 3.4 drops support for

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, and Solaris/ OpenIndiana, as well as remaining traces of support for Minix, SkyOS, UNIXWARE, and Sortix, due to lack of staff. VICE 3.5 drops explicit support for OS/2 and AmigaOS, due to the transition to GTK3 UI.

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