WinVICE 1.17 Released

[Keith]

Category: <b>Commodore</b><br><br>A new build of WinVICE as well as the other VICE builds for multiple platforms has been released. WinVICE is a multiple commodore system emulator for Win32. You can grab other builds for other platforms such as UNIX, MSDOS, BeOS and so on over at the official site.

** General
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<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Compiling for QNX 6.x works now (binary package is available).
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Binary packages for Solaris machines are available.

** C64 changes
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<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Added full GeoRAM memory expansion support with sizes from 64KB to 4MB.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Added full RamCart memory expansion support.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Added full +60K memory expansion support.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Correct REU values after reset.

** C128 changes
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<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Added full GeoRAM memory expansion support with sizes from 64KB to 4MB.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Added RamCart memory expansion support without the read-only option.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Fixed some C64 mode bugs.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Correct REU values after reset.

** Unix changes
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<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> New dutch translation.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Language support has been extended to include commandline-options.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> BSD platform problems with using the sounduss and soundsun driver have been fixed.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Problems compiling with older versions of libpng have been fixed.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Problems with MAXPATHLEN and PATH_MAX when compiling have been fixed.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> New ALSA sound driver.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Fixed some compile errors if GCC4 is used.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Added support for more analog joysticks.

** MS-Windows changes
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<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Added international language support (experimental, disabled for now).
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> The Wine Resource Compiler is now required to compile using gcc for proper international language support.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Added support for recent ffmpeg libraries.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Fixed some directory lister bug.

** MS-DOS changes
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<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Added ethernet support using the wattcp stack and libpcap library.

** Miscellaneous changes
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<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Compiling without C++ or ReSID works now.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Added support for more 3rd party basic extenders to petcat.
<font style="font-size: 12px"><strong>•</strong></font> Userport RS232 emulation should work as expected now.

Head on over to the official site for more information and to download the other platform builds.

:: VICE Official Site
:: WinVICE 1.17