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2012-11-16 21:03

blacky

Registered: Sep 2007
Posts: 41

VICE 2.4 has been released.

VICE 2.4 has been released.

VICE is the Versatile Commodore Emulator, it emulates the Commodore C64,
C128, VIC20, PET, PLUS4 and the CBM-II, as well as the C64 DTV, and it
runs on Win32, Unix, DOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and AmigaOS systems.

VICE is *free* software released under the GNU General Public License,
and as such it comes with full source code.

The most important changes from the last version can be found at the end
of this posting.

For more information and download instructions check out the VICE home
page at:

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

=======================================================================
Note that some of the binaries are not available yet (sunos 4.x and qnx 4.x), we are still working on them, they will be available soon.

=======================================================================

The VICE team.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

* Upgrading
===========

If you run into trouble please try removing any VICE configuration files
left from previous installs.
(vice.ini / .vicerc / vice2.cfg / vice-sdl.ini depending on platform)

* Changes in VICE 2.4
======================

** General
----------

- New SDL based MIPS Windows NT port.

- New SDL based native Dingoo port.

- New monitor commands: autostart and autoload.

- Rewrite of the sound system, output is now mono/stereo selectable.

- Split off the 5x0 model from the 6x0/7x0 models in xcbm2, new emulator is
called xcbm5x0.

- Split off sid player from c64, new program is called vsid.

- New maintainer for the polish translations, they are now 100% up2date.

- New IEC FD2000/4000 drive support.

- New 1541 drive sounds emulation.

- 1541 drive emulation has been greatly improved.

** C64/C128 changes
-------------------

- ACIA address now selectable.

- I/O conflict behaviour now selectable.

- Added Pagefox cartridge support.

- Added Silverrock cartridge support.

- Added Formel64 cartridge support.

- IDE64 support extended to be able to handle 4 devices.

- IDE64 FD/CD/CF support added.

- Added "Kingsoft" ("Business Basic" aka "S'more") cartridge support.

- SFX sound sampler, SFX sound expander and digimax extended to output in
stereo.

- Added Triple SID support.

- Added Nordic Replay support to the Retro Replay cartridge emulation.

- Added video to audio leak sound support.

- Added VICII 'no border' mode support.

- Magic Voice cartridge emulation improvements.

- Added support for the kingsoft and starbyte userport joystick adapters.

- Added MicroMys, SmartMouse, Atari CX-22 trackball, and Atari mouse
support.

- Added supercard+ support.

- Added DS12C887 RTC expansion support.

- Added userport RTC (58321a) expansion support.

** C64 changes
--------------

- Support for drive burst modification.

** C128 changes
---------------

- Improved the z80 cycle emulation.

- C128 model can be selected.

- Added internal function RAM and RAM+RTC support.

** VIC20 changes
----------------

- Added I/O conflict checking with selectable behaviour.

- Added masC=uerade adapter support, I/O-only C64 carts can now also be used
with the VIC20 emulation.

- The VIC border mode can be selected now (none, normal, full, debug).

- Added DS12C887 RTC expansion support.

** PLUS4 changes
----------------

- The TED border mode can be selected now (none, normal, full, debug).

- PLUS4 model can be selected.

** PET changes
--------------

- Added proper SuperPET support, including 6809(/6309) CPU emulation,
6702 (dongle) emulation, and the TPUG MMU board (for Super-OS/9).

** CBM2 changes
---------------

- CBM2 model can be selected.

** Cartconv changes
-------------------

- Display usage when -f/-t/-i/-o/-n/-l is given without an extra parameter.

** Petcat changes
-----------------

- Added Supergrafik support.

** Unix changes
---------------

- New Russian, Spanish and Korean translations of the UI elements and
command-line options.

- Added copy/paste support to the XAW GUI.

- Added 'drag and drop' support to the GTK+ GUI.

- Added monitor window support using VTE to the GTK+ GUI.

** MS-Windows changes
---------------------

- Alot of GUI fixes and improvements.

- New Russian, Spanish and Korean translations of the UI elements and
command-line options.

- Hotkeys are now configurable by editing the win_hotkeys.vhk files.

- Source can now be compiled without DX.

** AmigaOS changes
------------------

- New Russian, Spanish and Korean translations of the UI elements and
command-line options.

- Alot of GUI fixes and improvements.

- Improved the library loading system, when 'optional' libraries fail to load,
the features needing the library will be disabled.

- Added support for the catweasel.device driver.

** DOS changes
--------------

- Added PCI Catweasel support.

- Added PCI HardSID support.

** Mac OS X changes
-------------------

** SDL UI changes
-----------------

- Added OpenCBM support.

** BeOS changes
---------------

- Alot of GUI fixes and improvements.

- Joystick keysets have been fixed (again.)

- "beos" sound driver can now be tested on Haiku (at your own risk) with
command-line option: -sounddev beos

** OS/2 changes
---------------

- Alot of GUI fixes and improvements.

Enjoy!

Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.

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2012-11-19 20:32

Yogibear

Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 208

3SID support! Great! This could bring some amazing tunes!
I'll ask buddy Roland Hermans if he'll make a 9 tracks SID player out of the normal player he wrote ages ago.
Shouldn't be that much work.

2012-11-19 20:36

Yogibear

Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 208

Oh yes. Do more have trouble with the colors of the new VICE?
I tried removing any VICE configuration files
left from previous installment but nothing changes.
Does anyone have some tips?

2012-11-19 21:33

chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11135

what kind of trouble?

2012-11-19 21:41

Mr. SID

Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 421

Even micro64.de has a higher page rank when searching for "c64 emulator". The actual VICE site is on page 10 for me, that basically makes it impossible for people to find.

As far as SEO is concerned, one important rule that applies to Google is to make sure you have a proper page title and URL. This increases your page rank significantly. Make sure you have as many of the typical search terms in the page title and the URL.

So for VICE I would change the page title from "The VICE Emulator" to
"VICE - The emulator for C64, C128, VIC20, PET, PLUS4 and other Commodore computers". And insert your favorite superlative between "The" and "emulator". :)

2012-11-19 22:04

Yogibear

Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 208

Quote: what kind of trouble?

Start screen colors are darker, letters are more vague and it looks there are really small "lines" through it.

2012-11-19 22:28

Mr. SID

Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 421

Quote: Start screen colors are darker, letters are more vague and it looks there are really small "lines" through it.

Hm, sounds like CRT emulation...

2012-11-19 22:30

chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11135

indeed, CRT emulation is enabled by default now (as is doublesize and doublescan)

2012-11-20 10:27

MagerValp

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1058

Quoting Groepaz

indeed, CRT emulation is enabled by default now (as is doublesize and doublescan)

2012-11-21 21:06

Yogibear

Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 208

So how can this problem be solved?

2012-11-21 21:20

Mr. SID

Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 421

There is no problem. It's a bug that has been fixed in 2.4.

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