I want to play games on the vice emulator on Ubuntu 14.04. I have never managed to get vice working in Ubuntu. What are the steps needed to achieve this?
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What's Vice C64?– BraiamOct 12, 2013 at 22:16
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It's a commodore 64 emulator. There is a a linux version but I don't know how to get it working. I have now discovered you can sudo apt-get install wine and then download the windows version and use it with wine– uzi3kOct 13, 2013 at 22:43
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See this for an update: askubuntu.com/a/1062151/29097 and improved method– Evan CarrollAug 3, 2018 at 22:00
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update --- there is a new release now, 3.3, and as 3.2, works great.
I managed to compile it with trial-and-errors adding the following libraries:
sudo apt install xa65 libreadline-dev libxaw7-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libpulse-dev
and compiled with
./configure
make
sudo make install
...and it seems to work (the lib hack is not needed anymore). Seems a quite live project!
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You can compile the native version pretty easily (well...). Tested with version 2.4. (compact instructions --- tell me if you need more details).
1) download the last version from http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/
2) unpack it where you want
tar xvzf vice-3.1.tar.gz
cd vice-3.1
3) install required dev libraries:
sudo apt install build-essential libvte-dev libasound2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgnome2-dev byacc flex
4) configure, compile and install (it will go in /usr/local/). On my netbook, I have a coffee after the "make"...
./configure --enable-gnomeui
make
sudo make install
5) if you machine is 64 bit, do the following (as root)
cd /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s ../lib64/vice .
(this is probably a bug; the emulator will search the ROMS in /usr/local/lib even if the installation is a 64 bit one and the install program will put the libraries under /usr/local/lib64/)
6) type x64 and Enjoy! (this thing evokes a tear... my first computer ever was a C64. If only I did not lose my discs...)
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1This still works with Ubuntu 14.04, playing last ninja and it works great, fullscreen doesn't work for me either.– uzi3kSep 12, 2014 at 21:42
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1How do you actually run VICE after the
sudo make installcommand? Dec 30, 2016 at 21:19 -
1On Ubuntu 17.10 with vice-3.1 you need
sudo apt install byacc flexbefore youconfigure– rubo77Nov 1, 2017 at 20:44 -
2I like this emulator as it produces the sound of the 1541 Floppy Drive. Definitely a tear is shedding! =) Thank you!– TerranceNov 16, 2017 at 15:02
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To install vice with the default roms, you can
Install vice from the system repos
sudo apt-get install viceInstall the roms,
Download the source tarball http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/index.html#download and extract it to
/tmpRun the following commands to copy over the data files,
find /tmp/vice-*/data \ -mindepth 1 \ -type d \ -exec sudo cp -rnv {} /usr/lib/vice/ \;
now you can use x64 and x64sc to run the bin files.
answered Aug 3, 2018 at 21:59
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1Works great! +1 Full screen no longer has lines in it like when I build from source.– TerranceMar 4, 2019 at 2:43
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No need to copy it into the root filesystem. Just copy the folders from the
datadirectory of the vice tarball to~/.config/vice. Or in the command above, replace/usr/lib/vice/by~/.config/vice. (You might need to create the folder first:mkdir -p ~/.config/vice.)– pcworldNov 9, 2019 at 14:07 -
@pcworld - this doesn't work with 3.5. A pity, as it would be nice not have to replace the ROMs every time Ubuntu updates. Also, the Vice ROMs folder is now
/usr/share/vice/and files under /usr/lib/vice are no longer found.– scrussJun 21, 2021 at 23:51
Compile and install went well 1st time on my fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, however i found that the C64 had no keyboard response.
This was fixed by copying the x11_sym.vkm and sdl_sym.vkm files from the source codes data/C64 folder into the installed C64 folder.
