How can I get the vice C64 (commodore 64) emulator to work
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!
Original content:
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...)
To install vice with the default roms, you can
Install vice from the system repos
sudo apt-get install vice
Install the roms,
Download the source tarball http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/index.html#download and extract it to
/tmp
Run 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.