VICE

It's great to see the passion behind those who are determined to keep this emulator up to date. Generally however it seems to be moving more in the direction of cryptic C++ programing terms and folder hierarchy (SDL v GTK, BIN folder), and is less accessible to the average person who just wants to try an old C64 program. Once you are past finding your executables at the bottom of a long list of files sharing the BIN folder - something you'd expect to see in operating systems other than Windows, for example, there is no clear emulator to choose for the best selling computer model of all time, the old Breadbox C64 (extensive lore knowledge would tell you it's not the "DTV", but "x64sc?" What's the "SC"? Standard computer? The manual may say, but I doubt most will want to go search for that. So experimentation then. Some other others are more easily identified, like xplus4. Why so cryptic? If the developers could test navigating to and finding the right emulator with family members, perhaps they'd understand why this bugs me even though I can figure it out fine - with nearly 30 years of emulating from the early days of Frodo. That said, there are nice enhancements and fixes and FUNCTIONALLY it seems to be really GOOD emulation. Now the sound, joystick emulation, and other settings are back to working well or are no longer giving me issues as they did a couple of years ago - when I stuck to version 2.4 for years due to it being nearly unusable out of the box. We're back! So take that positive feedback, please and maybe make it a little easier for people who aren't programmers or SourceForge veterans to figure out what to use. For most I'd wager a flashing neon sign with "standard C64 emulator you are looking for is right here" would be a help. A preset on the joystick keyboard with the cursor keys as directions and something obvious for Fire would be awesome too for out of the box fun.

Having used the old version of Vice from the mid 2000's this is not at all easier or better. First i had to look in an out of the way folder just to find the exe to run it,the download page is confusing as it talks about binary versions ,and various compiled files,it's not clear what is a download that just runs vs what ever is the code for the re complied program is, this is not clear for non coders / joe public who just want to download the emulator. Also the exe icon is ugly,gray boring. The load a game file brings up an annoying and unnecessary UI screen that then brings up a requester saying there no disk in the drive,as i had tape files not disk images,this would not stop bugging me,i don't know if that's something to do with windows or the emulator,as i turned off the disk drive emulation and it still wouldn't stop showing the requestor,as clicking the cancel option 10 times then closes it. Straight out of the box it's another example of how to make something that just worked 10 years ago into something that is fast becoming discount retro arch style emulator,too much UI shenanigans with a lot of settings that were not needed before.

Great software. I plan to play on it old games :)

Great! I made a port of Zork years ago and it worked! Great job.

Hello, please tell me how to use this version of the game 'Knights of Legend [1581]' with VICE? This can be found at csdb.dk [1581] OK [ramcard] OK [scpu] this is not OK!!!