Vice 2.1

[iAN CooG]

 

VICE 2.1 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, SkyOS, AmigaOS and
GP2X systems.

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

Most important changes since the last version include:


* Changes in VICE 2.1
======================

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

- The VICEplus project has been joined with VICE. Thus, x64dtv is now
  part of VICE.

- We can be contacted via IRC: #vice-dev on freenode

- Added a more accurate ReSID engine using floating point math (ReSID-FP).

- Added support for the USB HardSID.

- PAL emulation has been rewritten and optimized.

- Fixed the ACIA 6551 emulation. (x64/x128/xcbm2/xpet/xplus4)

- Monitor commands help text is now translated too
  (in ports where translation is available at all)

- Monitor IO command now displays IO area even if it is currently
  banked out.

- GCR file handling (.G64) issues an error message if the .G64 does not
  have the expected structure. Before, VICE just silently ignored such
  files.

- IRQ handling fix

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

- Fixed the digimax sound generation.

- Added the RR clockport disable functionality at $DF00.0. Allows
  to disable the RRnet.

- Improved REU compatibility and timing.

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

- Added isepic cartridge emulation.

- Added Double Quick Brown Box cartridge emulation.

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

- Improved the sound emulation.

- Fixed the lowest note bug.

- Improved VIC emulation (exact in-line color/reverse mode changes).

** C64DTV changes
-----------------

- New emulator.

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

- XRandR fullscreen implemented

- Command line option `-fullscreen' is supposed to do something
  useful.

- Vsync code imported from win32 (based on openGL extension).
  see also doc/openGLsync-howto.txt.

- Vidmode (fullscreen support) is broken and therefore marked as
  deprecated. It will be removed in the next release if no-one takes
  responsibility to fix the broken code and is willing to maintain the
  code.

- PAL Emulation (new implementation, improved speed) should be usable
  again (it was broken on certain display depths).

- Log messages are always english.

- Only x11 keymaps will be installed when doing a 'make install'.

- MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic.

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

- Watcom generated executables are more optimized.

- MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic.

- When specifying the target for the RS232 communication
  (Menu Settings/RS232 Settings), the target can be specified by
  name now. Before, you had to use the IP address.

- Fixed some minor errors with the RS232 communication via TCP
  connections.

- RS232 can use real devices now, too.
  To use this feature, you have to specify the COM port used in
  Settings/RS232 Settings like:
  \\.\com1: baud=57600 parity=N data=8 stop=1

  The characters after the colon can be used to specify additional
  settings for the COM port. The string must have the same form as the
  mode command's command-line arguments:
  [baud=b][parity=p][data=d][stop=s][to={on|off}][xon={on|off}]
  [odsr={on|off}][octs={on|off}][dtr={on|off|hs}][rts={on|off|hs|tg}]
  [idsr={on|off}]

  The above example specifies COM1 with a baud rate of 57600, no parity,
  8 data bits and 1 stop bit.

  Note that the leading \\.\ is used to distinguish between TCP/IP
  targets and real devices, thus, you have to use it.

  (Sorry, no fancy UI yet.)

- vsid GUI reworked:
  * infoline appears only by pressing "I"
  * raises process priority. Otherwise, when in background,
    looses cpu power and music is not played at correct speed
  * drag&drop support; window also gets focus back on drop
  * correct display of emulated sid model (when using -keepenv)
  * changed colors

- fixed copy function from the VICE monitor window.

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

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

- Fixed 24/32bit display depth problem.

** GP2X changes
---------------

- Fixed black screen problem.

- Pause emulation while the menu is open.

- Added experimental support for USB keyboard and joystick.

- Removed vsid.

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

- x64a.app and x64dtv.app (Cocoa) are now feature complete
  * added flip lists
  * added netplay dialog
  * added ROM resources
  * added video settings dialog
  * added record snapshot dialog

- Introduced new control window that replaces old peripherals drawer
  * with tape control buttons
  * attach/eject buttons for each drive
  * drag & drop of disk/tape images

- Introduced Cocoa compile for Mac OS X 10.5 and greater with more features
  (see extended Resource Inspector)

- Completely rewritten joystick driver that supports user-definable buttons
  for fire and all directions.

- Copy & Paste support for emulator and monitor/log window

- Added x2, x3, x4 view scaling like in Quicktime Player

- Store visibility and size of all windows in user's preferences

- Added Keyset Joystick toggle to quickly disable keyboard joysticks

- Added MIDI support





The VICE 2.1 source archive is available at:
http://zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/crosspl...vice-2.1.tar.gz

The VICE 2.1 WIN32 binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...WinVICE-2.1.zip

The VICE 2.1 DOS binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...VICE/vice21.zip

The VICE 2.1 Mac OS X 10.3/10.4 native Cocoa binary package is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...-10.3+4-2.1.dmg

The VICE 2.1 Mac OS X 10.5 native Cocoa binary package is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...ub-10.5-2.1.dmg

The VICE 2.1 Mac OS X X11 Gtk+ binary package is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...-10.3+4-2.1.dmg

The VICE 2.1 Mac OS X X11 Athena Widgets binary package is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...-10.3+4-2.1.dmg

The VICE 2.1 M68K Amiga OS 3.x binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...aOS3-2.1.tar.gz

The VICE 2.1 PPC Amiga OS 4.x binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...aOS4-2.1.tar.gz

The VICE 2.1 PPC MorphOS binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...phOS-2.1.tar.gz

The VICE 2.1 Intel AROS binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...AROS-2.1.tar.gz

The VICE 2.1 PPC AROS binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...AROS-2.1.tar.gz

The VICE 2.1 AROS64 binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...OS64-2.1.tar.gz

The VICE 2.1 SkyOS binary package is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...CE/VICE-2.1.pkg

The VICE 2.1 GP2X binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...ce-gp2x-2.1.zip

The VICE 2.1 RiscOS binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...e-riscos2_1.zip

The VICE 2.1 Intel BeOS binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...ICE-2.1.x86.zip

The VICE 2.1 PPC BeOS binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...2.1.powerpc.zip

The VICE 2.1 QNX 4.x binary package is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...-2.1-qnx4.tar.F

The VICE 2.1 QNX 6.x binary package is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...-x86-public.qpr

The VICE 2.1 OS/2 binary archive is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...E/vice2-2.1.zip

The VICE 2.1 Minix 3.x binary package is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...nix-2.1.tar.bz2

The VICE 2.1 Atari Mint binary package is available at:
http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/cro...-1.m68kmint.rpm

The Solaris ports can be found at:
http://www.viceteam.org/solaris.html

The SCO openserver and unixware ports can be found at:
http://www.viceteam.org/sco.html

For more information check out the VICE home page at:

   http://www.viceteam.org/

At the time this was written the VICE home page was not updated yet,
rest assured that it will be updated soon.
In the meantime, please use

   http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/


The VICE team wishes you all a Merry Christmas!

The VICE team.

[iAN CooG]

 Noto ora che non e' stato precisato che la GUI per il parametro -vsid non e' solo improved, ma proprio implementato per la prima volta in questa versione di WinVice  

[ice00]

 Adesso compilo il tutto su linux e vediamo se -vsid torna a funzionare (da quando ho il sistema a 64 bit, ottengo sempre un segmentation fault all'attivazione, senno, visto che adesso sono su sourceforge, faccio un bel bug report   )

[ice00]

 -vsid funziona perfettamente!
Ottimi i settaggi delle differenti versione di chip possibili (chiaro, scuro, ecc)

da segnalare che la compilazione del C64dtv è ora molto più agevole rispetto a quella del vice-plus, dato che non serve collegarsi online per scaricare le rom del kernel.

[fab]

 http://viceteam.org/ è ancora gestito da Andreas Boose, che non è più nel team di VICE, e quindi non è ancora aggiornato. Si può quasi dire che il sito ufficiale del VICE Team sia in realtà http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/ , che è gestito dal team, e riporta correttamente la 2.1 come ultima versione.

[iAN CooG]

 

-vsid funziona perfettamente!
Ottimi i settaggi delle differenti versione di chip possibili (chiaro, scuro, ecc)

Si e in questo momento Vice e' l'unico player pubblicamente disponibile in grado di suonare sid come Fanta In Space e ora puo' anche emulare il demo Vicious Sid che usa la stessa, rivoluzionaria, digi-routine.
Sidplay2 (commandline) e' stato aggiornato ma e' disponibile solo per chi si puo' ricompilare i sorgenti.

Per attivare il vsid player di vice e' necessario approntare un file batch, per non dover ogni volta riscrivere la trafila di parametri. Chiamatelo vsid.bat

Codice: [Seleziona]

set x=c:\c64\vice\x64.exe
set p=-sidengine 7 -sidfilters -sidmodel 12 -keepenv %2 -vsid
%x% %p% %1
Ovviamente ognuno dovra' cambiarsi il path di x64 mettendo il proprio.
I valori possibili per sidmodel sono

Codice: [Seleziona]

-sidengine 1 (reSID)

SID_MODEL_6581           0
SID_MODEL_8580           1
SID_MODEL_8580D          2
SID_MODEL_6581R4         3
SID_MODEL_DTVSID         4

-sidengine 7 (reSID-fp)

SID_MODEL_6581R3_4885    8
SID_MODEL_6581R3_0486S   9
SID_MODEL_6581R3_3984   10
SID_MODEL_6581R4AR_3789 11
SID_MODEL_6581R3_4485   12
SID_MODEL_6581R4_1986S  13
SID_MODEL_8580R5_3691   16
SID_MODEL_8580R5_3691D  17
SID_MODEL_8580R5_1489   18
SID_MODEL_8580R5_1489D  19

la "D" indica un Digiboosted 8580

per suonare un sid che richiede 6581r4 bisogna cambiare il modello

Codice: [Seleziona]

vsid \HVSC\MUSICIANS\J\Jeff\Space_Journey.sid -sidmodel 13

la finestra supporta il drag/drop, quindi basta che vi creiate un link sul desktop al file vsid.bat per attivarlo la prima volta trascinandovi un .sid, e dopo potrete trascinare i seguenti direttamente nella finestra di vice/vsid.