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2011-02-26 19:51

blacky

Registered: Sep 2007
Posts: 41

VICE 2.3 has been released

VICE 2.3 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, RiscOS, 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 (minix and sparc
solaris), we are still working on them, they will be available soon.

Our maillist server seems to be down, we have no idea how long it is
going to be down for, if it is down for too long we will set up an
alternative maillist and announce it.

The documentation is slowly being updated and expanded to other formats
(pdf, txt, amigaguide, hlp, chm, ipf), it is still in an experimental
stage.

Unlike previous releases we are using the sf server for the binary
files, at least until they become available on zimmers.net, the links
in the documentation points to the zimmers.net location.
=======================================================================

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 2.3
======================

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

- Added x64sc, the accurate C64 emulator:

* VIC-II emulation rewritten from scratch using results from extensive
testing with newly written test programs on real hardware.

* Emulation is done on a cycle by cycle basis combined with pixel exact
dot clock domain handling.

* Accurate handling of all possible in-line splits of VIC-II registers
and graphics data.

* C64 model and even individual chip revisions can be selected for very
detailed emulation of their differences.

* Equally accurate PAL, NTSC and PAL-N emulation.

We believe x64sc is one of the most accurate C64 emulators at the
moment.

- Drive improvements, including weak bit emulation.

- Major reSID overhaul:

* Emulation of all known pipeline delays for full cycle accuracy.
* New shift register model based on revectorized die photograps.
* Accurate DAC models based on revectorized die photograps.
* Emulation of floating waveform DAC input for waveform 0.
* Advanced 6581 transistor level filter model based on revectorized
die photograps, yielding unprecedented accuracy.

- CRT Emulation (former "PAL emulation") is now available regardless of
video mode or -chip and works in all emulators.

NOTE: Color gamma range changed. You may need to set to 2.200 manually.
(ColorGamma=2200)

- Added "True aspect ratio" option.

- Sound buffer overflows reduced and the error replaced with a warning.

- Various monitor improvements (io details, expansion port status ...)

- Removed little used Emulator ID feature.

- VIA wrap handling rewritten to fix problems with timer 2.

- Added autostart option to do LOAD ,8 instead of ,8,1.

- RESTORE key presses are now distributed randomly across a frame.

- Improved accuracy of CIA interrupts. (6526/6526A selectable)

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

- Cartridge emulation improvements. Many broken cartridges fixed, and the
following ones added:

* Action Replay 2
* Action Replay 3
* Capture
* Diashow Maker
* EXOS
* Final Cartridge Plus
* Freeze Frame
* Freeze Machine
* Game Killer
* MACH 5
* Magic Voice
* MMC Replay
* Prophet 64
* Snapshot 64
* Super Explode V5
* Super Snapshot

- Added emulation of the passthrough port of MMC64, Magic Voice and IEEE488
cartridges.

- CIA TOD 50/60 Hz toggle emulation fixed.

- Improved 1351/paddles port MUX emulation.

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

- Added Drean (PAL-N) emulation.

- Fixed bug with autostart mode Inject-to-RAM. It now writes to RAM under
I/O correctly.

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

- Fixed a bug with autostarting t64 images.

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

- Added Vic Flash Plugin cartridge emulation.

- Fixed video cache & reverse bug.

- Fixed bug in attaching 4kB cartridges.

- Fixed autostarting bug, mostly seen with tape images.

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

- Fixed crashes in NTSC mode.

- Added v364 speech emulation.

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

- Added DWW emulation.

- Added userport DAC emulation.

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

- Split 5x0 and 6x0/7x0 settings in the configuration file.

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

- (Xaw) The menus can now be operated without holding the
mouse button down. Keyboard control is also available
(Shift-Alt-Z for left menu, Shift-Alt-X for right menu).

- (Xaw) Lightpen/gun support added.

- (GTK+) Fixed aspect ratio option added.

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

- Implemented run time DX9 toggling.

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

- Added support for arm-aros.

- Made the UI more complete.

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

- Made the UI more complete.

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

- Added IO Tree to display a tree of IO registers and decode their meaning.
Currently only the C64 IO registers are supported, but you can extend the IO
Tree yourself by editing the "IOTree.plist" file. Please submit your IO Tree
extensions!

- Added Debugger Windows for Memory, Register and Disassembly Display.
These windows assist the monitor mode and display the machine state.
A popup window in the disassembly view allows you to set and alter breakpoints.

- Joysticks with sliders and hats are now supported. A single joystick can be
shared for HID device a and b. Some workarounds for broken USB devices added.

- Added "virtual" auto-fire to Joystick settings.

- Added True Pixel Aspect Ratio Display. This simulates the behavior that the
screen of an emulator is smaller in width if the pixels are not squares.

- Fixes in x64 and x128 osx keymaps.

- Correctly restore scale, position, and ordering of all emulator windows.

- Added 64 Bit compiles using gcc and clang compilers.

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

- Added vsid UI, FFMPEG and printer menus. The UI is complete.

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

- Fixed sound hang.

- Made the UI more complete.

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

- The OS/2 port is now compiled using openwatcom.

- Made the UI more complete.

Enjoy!

Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.

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2011-02-28 08:56

Jazzcat

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044

Blacky: cheers! I am very happy with the work on Vice. I do a lot of screenshots for entries on CSDb and also for gfx conversions to the pages of my disk magazine, so the reason I need access to a good palette is for those purposes only.

Maybe make Pepto or Cupid's palette as default?

What other external palette's exist? Or even better, have a palette's menu so people can choose from those built-in.

2011-02-28 09:10

Twoflower

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 434

> What other external palette's exist? Or even better, have a palette's menu so people can choose from those built-in.

The decent ones imnsho are Pepto, the Timanthes one (similar, but not really) and Ptoings. Atleast, these are the ones where the luminance-levels between the colors feels somewhat appropriate.

2011-02-28 09:54

Jazzcat

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044

Some random palettes to show some differences, obviously saturation etc plays an important part:

C64Fan1981 Palette:

DeeKay Palette:

Ptoing Palette:

Pepto Palette:

2011-02-28 12:34

Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5086

the max difference of the screenshots above is as big as between my laptop lcd & tv lcd. No picture of two tvs looked the same, and they were set up differently (brightness etc), anyway so whats the point ?

I take pepto as the defacto standard its taken from the c64's pal signal and not how some stupid CRT looked like.

2011-02-28 16:27

blacky

Registered: Sep 2007
Posts: 41

I put up windows fixed binaries, check out the VICE sf homepage for the links.

Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.

2011-02-28 16:34

grennouille

Registered: Jul 2008
Posts: 222

I can't take .PNG screenshots in Vice X64 2.3 ? What am I doing wrong?

2011-02-28 18:56

iAN CooG

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3187

until win32 issues are fixed in SF trunk, try this build
http://iancoog.altervista.org/vice/winvice23-23766_vsffix_psidv..
- vpl can be loaded (don't press Enter on the selection but use OK button, else it still gets Signal 11 error, the new Dialog is full of bad alloc)
- vsf snapshots taken while a cart (ar/tfr) was in use can be loaded
- png lib relinked
- PSID v3 header is checked correctly so -vsid mode it's already able to load upcoming 2SIDs

2011-02-28 20:31

grennouille

Registered: Jul 2008
Posts: 222

Thank you Ian

2011-02-28 20:57

Moloch

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2925

Quoting Rubi

"hahaha"? "Unbelievable"? Go and wash your mouth. And write your own bug-free emulator. Or buy some emulator for money (if you can find one) so that you have the right to get angry on the developers.

I always have the right to voice a complaint at any developers that releases to the public, I don't have to create my own tools to have that right. The real issue here is you guys knew about the problem before release and decided to rush V2.3 out somehow thinking nobody would notice this bug? Loading a custom palette is a rather important feature to any emulator, especially when the palette included as default is crap.

Complaining about a bug doesn't mean I don't applaud the work of any emulator team. If that is the attitude the VICE-Team has than I'm not surprised you guys take such common place responses to _all_ openly released apps/tools as an attack.

2011-02-28 20:58

Moloch

Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 2925

Thanks Blacky! Appears to work nicely, thanks for the continued work on VICE.

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