Installer vice avec Homebrew, apk, apt, Nix, pacman, winget

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil

Commandes et alias

• c1541
• cartconv
• petcat
• vsid
• x128
• x64
• x64dtv
• x64sc
• xcbm2
• xcbm5x0
• xpet
• xplus4
• xscpu64
• xvic

Historique du projet

VICE development began in 1993 under Finnish programmer Jarkko Sonninen, who founded the project and retired from it in 1994. The project later continued as a volunteer-maintained emulator suite under the VICE Team, with official distribution and source hosting on SourceForge.

By the 2000s VICE had become one of the standard Commodore 8-bit emulation packages, especially on free Unix-like systems where historically fewer full-featured Commodore emulators were available. VICE was released under the GNU General Public License from 2004, and its manual and source tree document a broad, preservation-oriented codebase rather than a single-machine emulator.

Historique d'adoption

The VICE name also covered platform-specific identities over time: older Win32 builds were widely known as WinVICE, while OS/2 and BeOS variants were called Vice/2 and BeVICE. As the project modernized, some old host ports were retired; VICE 3.4 dropped support for several legacy Unix-like systems because of lack of maintainers, and VICE 3.5 dropped explicit OS/2 and AmigaOS support during the GTK3 UI transition.

Modes d'utilisation

Users typically launch the machine-specific emulator they need, such as `x64sc` or `x64` for Commodore 64, `x128` for Commodore 128, `xvic` for VIC-20, `xpet` for PET, or `xplus4` for Plus/4. The suite also includes command-line and conversion tools such as `c1541`, `cartconv`, `petcat`, and `vsid`, making it useful both for playing preserved software and for retrocomputing development workflows.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package maintainers and retrocomputing users, VICE is significant because it packages a large preservation stack into reproducible builds across operating systems. Its breadth means distributions often expose many executables from one package, and its SourceForge-era history makes it a classic example of mature free software infrastructure surviving multiple host-platform and UI transitions.

Chronologie

• 1993: VICE development began under Jarkko Sonninen.
• 1994: Sonninen retired from the project.
• 2004: VICE was free software under the GNU GPL.
• 2008-12-19: VICE 2.1 release documented support for C64, C128, VIC-20, Plus/4, C64DTV, PET, and CBM-II families.
• 2019-2020 era: VICE 3.4 and 3.5 retired several old host ports while moving through GTK3 UI modernization.
• 2025-12-24: VICE 3.10 released.

Related projects

• Related Commodore and emulator projects include CCS64, MAME, and VICE.js, a JavaScript port of VICE.
• The suite targets Commodore 8-bit families rather than later Amiga systems, so it complements rather than replaces Amiga-focused emulators.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VICE
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/vice-emu/
• https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/
• https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/vice_toc.html