VICE Reviews

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!!!

I learned a LOT about Commodore machines a long LONG Time ago that hadn't seen the light of day in, like, forever. With this Project all of that stuff can actually be USED Again!!! What I aim to Find out is if the Assembler (Machine Language) that WAS in My version of Commode Basic 4.0 (Mergy Board ROM) is in the Code of the Emulated PET/CBM ROM, and if I can Still write assembly code with it that WORKS? (I've Long Forgotten the Entry Address to "Call" the Assembler ... and all of the Op Codes except for "NO-OP" ... it should be a challenge.)

Did Compyx have his GUI seminar yet?

Well this wonderful because I have all the Commodore machines working on my windows PC and after all I am able to use my knowledge using this machines! I now that Commodore Business machines came to an end of product line, and this is a good reason that using that emulator I can still have contact with the machines!

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

Nice team, even though they were busy with other stuff, small patch requests has been accepted ... :)

The most in-depth C64 emulator there is. Also emulates the VIC-20, PET, Plus/4 and 128. A little tricky to get into for newcomers.

Fully functional for my needs! Thanks dev team.

Excellent, the past is here.

can't open the download file with any program on windows 8.

Best C64 emulator by far.

BEST C64 emulator ever and very stable however it does not support MFM in CP/M. :-(

Excellent stability, sound and colours. The screen is a little blurry on 1280x1024 but maybe I need to select a proper driver. What could be improved? Auto-detection of stereo SID. I use stereo always on, because I don't know what prods use this. The result is that classic games play sound only in the left speaker. By default the sound output should be mono to both speaker, when the 2nd chip is detected, auto-switch to stereo mode. I have a problem with full screen on the 2nd display, that is a HD TV. Even when it is selected to display full screen on the TV, and the main window is moved on that screen, the full screen is always displayed on the 1st monitor (Win 10 64 / GeForce 750Ti).

_The_ emulator

Very accurate and precise emulation of the greatest home computer of all time.

Best C64/vic20/C128/PET emulator, period!

best emulator

Great idea! Works only in NTSC mode and the interface is essential. But it's the only one emulator of c16, c64 DTV, c128, PET for android. May be a pleasure for many people but find it is very hardly. I hope to watch at soon new versions.

Vice-emu works good.

Vice-emu works fine.

Vice-emu works great.