It is available for most Linux and BSD distributions. It is also one of the few usable Commodore emulators to exist on free *NIX platforms, and one of the first to be distributed under GNU GPL. WinVICE supports digital joysticks via a parallel port driver, and, with a CatWeasel PCI card, is planned to perform hardware SID playback (requires optional SID chip installed in socket).Īs of 2004, VICE was one of the most widely used emulators of the Commodore 8-bit personal computers.
Īs of version 2.1, released December 19, 2008, VICE emulates the Commodore 64, the C128, the VIC-20, the Plus/4, the C64 Direct-to-TV (with its additional video modes) and all the PET models including the CBM-II but excluding the 'non-standard' features of the SuperPET 9000. Sonninen retired from the project in 1994. Development of VICE began in 1993 by a Finnish programmer Jarkko Sonninen, who was the founder of the project.
