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?
Ubuntu – How to get the vice C64 (commodore 64) emulator to work
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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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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:
and compiled with
...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
3) install required dev libraries:
4) configure, compile and install (it will go in
/usr/local/
). On my netbook, I have a coffee after the "make"...5) if you machine is 64 bit, do the following (as root)
(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...)