VICE and Ubuntu

Andreas Kohlbach

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Jun 20, 2009, 8:39:02 PM6/20/09

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I have Ubuntu 9.04 here on my new notebook and installed VICE. I recall
that every time I install VICE on a new machine (all 5-8 years so far)
VICE does not work as it wants kernal, chargen and others.

I was reading the /usr/share/doc/vice/README.ROMs file and downloaded
ftp://ftp.zimmers.net/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/old/vice-1.5-roms.tar.gz
as I was told. But after moving them to the appropriate locations at
/usr/lib/vice/... it still doesn't work, and there is no kernal or
chargen.

I tried to locate them in the internet but only get redirected to 404
pages, AKA dead.

I must miss something... Somebody please enlightens me.
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Lars Haugseth

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Jun 21, 2009, 6:59:33 PM6/21/09

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* Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>
> I have Ubuntu 9.04 here on my new notebook and installed VICE. I recall
> that every time I install VICE on a new machine (all 5-8 years so far)
> VICE does not work as it wants kernal, chargen and others.
>
> I was reading the /usr/share/doc/vice/README.ROMs file and downloaded
> ftp://ftp.zimmers.net/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/old/vice-1.5-roms.tar.gz
> as I was told. But after moving them to the appropriate locations at
> /usr/lib/vice/... it still doesn't work, and there is no kernal or
> chargen.
>
> I tried to locate them in the internet but only get redirected to 404
> pages, AKA dead.
>
> I must miss something... Somebody please enlightens me.

It's because of these kind of problems, and the fact that the packaged
versions of VICE always seem to lag a year or so behind, that I always
download and compile the source tarball of VICE. That will also let me
configure the compilation options I want to enable/disable.

More info here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278022

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Andreas Kohlbach

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Jun 22, 2009, 9:29:47 PM6/22/09

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I gotten lazy over the years. I did compile VICE as well as XMAME and
other stuff before but then would have to do it again and again on new
releases or bug fixes. So I stick with the packages now.

Anyway, the emulator might work, even if it might be older (I hope it
gets updates if there are severe bugs from the package maintainers), it
just misses the roms, which I seem not to be able to download
separately. I try a harder search at the weekend (I hope).

Anyway, I download DOS Vice (smaller than Win VICE :-) and try to extract
them from there.

> More info here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278022

Thanks.

Andreas Kohlbach

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Jun 23, 2009, 8:18:33 PM6/23/09

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And it works. :-)

So I downloaded 9 MB to get the ~10 kbytes payload out of the three
files I needed. :-)

Stefan Pohlmann

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Jun 26, 2009, 4:24:45 PM6/26/09

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> Anyway, I download DOS Vice (smaller than Win VICE :-) [...]

That's not true, it's the other way round. ;-)

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