Tag: vice

The Commodore 64 emulator Vice has been updated to version 3.2. VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, Syllable or Mac OS X machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C64DTV, the C128, the VIC20, practically all PET models,…

I do not remember how I debugged BASIC programs back in the 80s. To be honest, I do not even want to remember. I’m sure it was convoluted, ugly, and painful. You know what’s really nice? Modern development environments where you can step through your program, statement by statement, watch the variables change, maybe even change some yourself as you go,…

If you are following along from the last update, you now have assembled the pieces you need to start programming in 650x Assembly language. Since my RetroChallenge is focused on the Commodore CBM II (“B Series”) machines, I am going to be showing how to set a development environment for that machine. But the same environment will work just as…

The Commodore 64 emulator Vice has been updated to version 3.1. VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, Syllable or Mac OS X machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C64DTV, the C128, the VIC20, practically all PET models,…

New Features: Add: Action to jump to next warning/error message Add: Support for VICE 3.0 remote debugger, now works with binary mem dump => way faster memory reads! Add/Fix: Total rewrite of BASIC key mapping, now it should do what’s on the tin. Add/Fix: Replace all now works with selection, open documents and whole solution Add: !media supports spritedata for…

For those of you that just don’t have enough room in your house to store so much classic hardware, there is always emulation. I have used emulation for a long time now, in fact it was the main reason I bought a pc computer way back in 1998, after seeing Magic Engine emulator running on a friends Pentium 3 450mhz….

CSDb user Slajerek has released a new tool called C64 Debugger. It is a C64 and 1541 Drive code and memory debugger that works in real time. The tool runs emulated in a C64, but to make your life easier it is distributed embedded as a standalone executable using the C64SC engine. Link: CSDb  

The ‘The 64’ IndieGoGo campaign seems to be doing very well, reaching 30% of the target and with 30 days left. There is also some coverage by the “non-retro” news outlet which certainly helps to make some noise. The team behind the project has posted new updates about the machine, stating that it, in fact, will be based on a CPU…

YAPE is Plus/4 emulator. It’s being developed for 10+ years by now and it is available in Windows as well as multiplatform editions. It was just released a new version of the emulator running on Windows. It is a minor incremental update to 1.0.7 with the following changes: GUI fix SID fixes drive RPM fix autostart randomization fix For other…

There is another Kickstarter campaign. The project developer is asking for funding in order to build the smallest C64 Emulator. The hardware will have an open source software that will emulate the Commodore 64. The interesting part of this project is that the sound won’t be emulated, and the only way to get the sound working on this device is…