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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?

Zanna
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  • What's Vice C64? – Braiam Oct 12 '13 at 22:16
  • 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 – uzi3k Oct 13 '13 at 22:43
  • See this for an update: https://askubuntu.com/a/1062151/29097 and improved method – Evan Carroll Aug 03 '18 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!

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...)

vice x64 running

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  • thanks @Rmano, now I can finally play mission impossible on ubuntu. just a quick question: is it possible to set fullscreen mode? I can't find how to do it. – tezzo Mar 07 '14 at 07:56
  • Fullscreen does not work for me either. It produce a borderless window, but does not scale to fit the monitor. I think is by design; really the emulator maps 4 (2x2) real pixels to each pixel of the C64. But you can ask the upstream forums... – Rmano Mar 07 '14 at 15:54
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    This still works with Ubuntu 14.04, playing last ninja and it works great, fullscreen doesn't work for me either. – uzi3k Sep 12 '14 at 21:42
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    How do you actually run VICE after the `sudo make install` command? – Tony Lancer Dec 30 '16 at 21:19
  • in the terminal type x64 – uzi3k Oct 14 '17 at 12:12
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    On Ubuntu 17.10 with vice-3.1 you need `sudo apt install byacc flex` before you `configure` – rubo77 Nov 01 '17 at 20:44
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    I like this emulator as it produces the sound of the 1541 Floppy Drive. Definitely a tear is shedding! =) Thank you! – Terrance Nov 16 '17 at 15:02
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    I also had to `sudo apt install xa65` for vice-3.3 on Ubuntu 18.04. – DavidJ Mar 28 '19 at 04:00
  • @DavidJ yes --- it's in the updated first line of the message. Thanks! – Rmano Mar 28 '19 at 08:16
  • `libgnome2-dev` is not found in Ubuntu 20.04, is this really needed? maybe build it from source then too? or get it from Debian stretch [here](https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libgnome2-dev), and [here](https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/libgnome-2-0/download) also needed then would be `libbonobo2-0`, `libgnomevfs2-0`, liborbit-2-0` and `libgnome2-common` ? – rubo77 Aug 14 '20 at 10:05
  • @rubo77 I have no time to check here, but in https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/NEWS it seems that the new version (3.4) is on Gtk3... so it's a matter of downloading and trying to compile. – Rmano Aug 14 '20 at 12:17
  • without `libgnome2-dev` I get the error `configure: error: invalid option: --enable-gnomeui` on 20.04 – rubo77 Aug 14 '20 at 13:08
  • I used this: `apt install xa65 libglew-dev` and then `./configure; make; make install`. The command is now `x64sc` but it seems to work correctly. I am on 18.04 still, can you check it on 20.04? @rubo77 – Rmano Aug 14 '20 at 15:40
  • I get an error `Makefile:1119: vice.txt] Fehler 127` after some making time: https://pastebin.pl/view/bb725dd9 - I tested `apt install xa65 libglew-dev` and then `./configure; make` – rubo77 Aug 15 '20 at 09:43
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    Anyway: on Ubuntu 20.04 there is no need to compile, in the ap repositories is the latest version 3.4: `sudo apt-get install vice` and then start `x64sc`. – rubo77 Aug 15 '20 at 09:43
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To install vice with the default roms, you can

  1. Install vice from the system repos

    sudo apt-get install vice

  2. Install the roms,

    1. Download the source tarball http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/index.html#download and extract it to /tmp

    2. 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.

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    Works great! +1 Full screen no longer has lines in it like when I build from source. – Terrance Mar 04 '19 at 02:43
  • No need to copy it into the root filesystem. Just copy the folders from the `data` directory 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`.) – pcworld Nov 09 '19 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. – scruss Jun 21 '21 at 23:51
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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.

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