The software program (all caps), standing for '''''V'''ersat'''I'''le '''C'''ommodore '''E'''mulator'', is an Emulator for Commodore 's 8-bit computers, running on Amiga , Unix , MS-DOS , Win32 , Mac OS X , OS/2 , Acorn RISC OS , and BeOS host machines. VICE is Free Software , released under the GNU General Public Licence .
- NIX platforms, and one of the first to be distributed under GNU GPL. It is also included with most Linux distributions.
Version 1.21 of VICE, released 10 March , 2007 , emulates the Commodore 64 , the C128 , the VIC-20 , the Plus/4 , and all the PET models including the CBM-II but excluding the 'non-standard' features of the SuperPET 9000. VICE for Microsoft Windows (Win32) is known as , the OS/2 variant is called Vice/2, and the emulator running on BeOS is, not surprisingly, called BeVICE. WinVICE supports old-fashion digital Joystick s 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).
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