VICE 1.8 for Windows, DOS, Linux, and BeOS

posted in Emulator Release by slein on Feb 5th, 2002

VICE, the Commodore emulator has updated from 1.7 to 1.8. Here's what's new: ** General ---------- - Added '-h' as alias for '-?' and '-help' ** C64 changes -------------- - Added support for Retro Replay cartridge. - Frankie goes to Hollywood may work now. ** C128 changes --------------- - VDC has been improved a lot (but not ready for RFO now). - Added support for C64 type cartridges. ** VIC-II --------- - Fast PAL emulation has been added. - Added VIC-II reengineered palette. - Added also command line switches for: brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma - New style luminance signals - Using internal/external palette ** SID changes -------------- - Stereo support has been added (not available on all architectures). ** Drive changes ----------------- - Odd sized d64 images are supported now. ** MS-Windows changes --------------------- - The filter settings of the file selector boxes are persistent now. - Support for drag & drop (dropping an image autostarts it) - Disassembly window of monitor now has a context menu for every every disassembled line - Breakpoints can be set and unset by just clicking on the respective line ** OS/2 changes --------------- - Added dialog and menu entries to use a emulated PAL palette (Alt-I) - Implemented drag'n'drop for vsid mode. - Added stereo support - Added support for 'Fast PAL Emu' - Added a color dialog (like a TV set) - Added support for cartridges in x128 - Changed the video/DIVE support internally (in case of problems please report!) - Added support for Double Size / Double Scan - Fixed a bug which made the emulator crash if you press '1' in the file pop-up menu ** Unix changes --------------- - New italian translation. Credits to Andrea Musuruane - PAL Control UI in the Gnome port - Triple buffering DGA2 direct-into-fb-rendering support (root privileges needed) DGA2 XImage rendering currently not supported. Fullscreen is still in beta status; x128 fullscreen is broken. ** Miscellaneous changes ------------------------ - Fixed monitor hang if an unknown opcode is entered. - The monitor can assemble a JSR to a ZP location now. - Added '-h' as alias for '-?' and '-help' - Added a NLS-Howto to guide new translators. Credits to Andrea Musuruane You can get it at the following pages: Commodore 64 Emulators. Commodore 64 Emulators for Unix. BeOS Console Emulators. Thanks to Mark Evans for the news.