18 Acknowledgments
VICE derives from X64, the first Commodore 64 emulator for the
X Window System. Here is an informal list of the people who were
mostly involved in the development of X64 and VICE:
The VICE core team:
- Martin Pottendorfer
Implemented the Gnome Port based on Oliver Schaertels GTK+
port. Added support code for internationalization based on
gettext. Improved the *nix fullscreen support. Added multi-
threaded GUI display for *nix. Translated the UI to German.
Implemented the fliplists + UI (*nix).
- Marco van den Heuvel
Translated the UI to Dutch. Made the internationalization
support for the Win32 and Amiga ports. Wrote the GEO-RAM and
RamCart cartridge code. Wrote the c64 +60K, +256K and 256K
memory expansions code. Wrote the pet REU code. Wrote the plus4
memory expansions code. Made the ethernet support for the DOS
port. Maintains the QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Solaris, Openserver,
Unixware, Minix 3.x, Amiga, Syllable and OS/2 binary ports.
Maintains the Win64 and Open Watcom project files. Maintains
the SDL port(s). Added new .crt support. Added new screenshot
formats. Added new sound recording support. Added SIDcart
support for xpet, xplus4 and xvic. Improved the MMC64
emulation. Added 2 MHz mode and banks 2/3 support for x128.
Added the various userport joystick emulations. Added text copy
and paste support to the Amiga and BeOS ports. Added DQBB and
ISEPIC cartridge support. Added SFX Sound Sampler and SFX Sound
Expander support. Added PCI support to the Amiga and DOS ports.
Rewrote the sound system into a modular one, added always mono
and always stereo support for the sound output. Added the RTC
system. Added digiblaster support. Added 3rd SID support. Added
the 6309 CPU emulation. Added the 65(S)C02 emulation. Added the
65816 emulation. Added native screenshot (koala/doodle)
support. Added 6502/6510/8500/8502 cpu port unused bit fading.
Added vice.chm (windows), vice.guide (amiga), vice.hlp
(windows), vice.inf (os/2), vice.pdf (generic) and vice.txt
documentation generation. Added Android port based on
’AnVICE 1.0.5’. Improved/fixed the ’in-source’ FFMPEG support
and fixed it for msvc7.0 and up. Generalized the ’RS232 net’
support to be able to be used on any network supporting arch.
Started the SDL2 port. Added generic sampler input support.
Added new joyport system and converted the joystick, mouse and
lightpen code to use the new system. Added joyport attached
rtc (bbrtc). Added joyport attached cardkey keypad. Added
joyport attached coplin keypad. Added joyport attached atari
cx21 keypad. Added joyport attached atari cx85 keypad. Added
joyport attached paperclip 64 dongle. Added joyport attached
rushware keypad. Added joyport attached 2/4 bit samplers. Added
vic20 I/O-2 and I/O-3 RAM support. Added the c64 cp/m (z80)
cartridge. Added IDE64 digimax short bus device emulation.
Added tapeport system and the tapelog, cp-clockf83, tape-sense
dongle, and (not yet working) dtl basic dongle devices. Added
easy calc result cartridge emulation. Added hardware SID I/O
access system which allows CW3, HardSID, ParSID and SSI2001 to
work on AmigaOS, BeOS, DOS, SDL, *nix and windows with and
without device drivers. Added clockport system for mmc64,
mmcreplay, retroreplay and ide64. Added rrnet clockport device.
Added mp3@64 clockport device. And lots of other fixes and
improvements.
- Fabrizio Gennari
Added some improvements to the DOS and GTK+ ports. Changed the
Windows video to use GDI as fallback, making it compile without
DX if needed. Fixed the t64 support. Added monitor window support
using VTE to the GTK+ GUI. Made some monitor fixes. Fixed some
tape code issues.
- Groepaz
Added new more precise CRT emulation. Added support for the new
cartridge system and many new cartridges. Fixed up parts of
cartconv, c1541 and petcat. Added video to audio leak sound support.
Improved the GTK3 GUI. Added x64(sc), x128, x64dtv, xplus4, xvic model
selection system. Added KoalaPad emulation. Added keyrah keymaps.
Added joystick keys mapping to the keymap system. CIA emulation
improvements. Added basic support for compute gazette sidplayer
files (mus/str) to vsid. Added new palette files. Added
’available features’ code. Fixed/added some items in the OSX GUI.
Added random tape wobble emulation. Added 64KiB RGCD cartridge
emulation. Added psid v4 3sid support to vsid. Added single frame
advance. Added drive RPM and wobble support. Added rrnet mk3
emulation. Added GMod2 and GMod3 cartridge emulation. Added xvic BehrBonz
cartridge emulation. Added VICII VSP-bug emulation. Wrote alot of
test programs. Updated this document after a long period of
outdated mess. And various fixes and improvements.
- Olaf Seibert
Contributed some PET, including PET DWW hires, Xaw, lightpen,
hardware scaling, and disk drive patches. Added proper SuperPET
support, including 6809/6309 CPU emulation. Maintains the Xaw UI.
Added PET HRE (High Res Emulator) board emulation. Added the
2-chip colour board for the Universal PET mainboard. Added
support for ’printer/plotter’ Commodore 1520.
- Marcus Sutton
Made some console, dialog and joystick fixes for the BeOS port.
Maintains the BeOS port. Added some GTK2 fixes. Fixed some PET model
selection issues. Revived the Windows NT Unicode port.
- Kajtar Zsolt
Wrote the IDE64 interface emulation, FD2000/4000 drive emulation, SCPU64
emulation and alot of fixes. Improved the mouse support. Added drive
burst modification support. Added 1541 drive sounds emulation. Improved
c64 cart emulation. Added DAC high pass filtering. Added the xscpu64
emulator. Added scroll wheel support for the Micromys mouse emulation.
Added Swiss ROM support to x128. Added IDE64 USB server emulation. Added
1540 drive emulation. Improved monitor support. Improved vdrive
compatibility. Added godot screenshot support. And fixed various issues.
- AreaScout
Fixed the SDL2 port. Revived the Android port. Maintains the SDL1,
SDL2 and Android ports.
- Bas Wassink
Fixed some gtk2/3 issues. Fixed t64 file handling. Fixed memory
leaks. Added more doxygen documentation. Fixed c1541 issues.
Updated the Linux-Native-Howto.txt file. Added autoconf, automake and
yasm version checking. Fixed runtime linker path issues with *BSD. Fixed
out-of-tree building. One of the driving forces behind the ’native’ GTK3
port.
- Michael C. Martin
One of the driving forces behind the ’native’ GTK3 port.
Former/inactive team members:
- BSzili
Provided many amigaos4 fixes. Maintained the amigaos based and derived
ports.
- Errol Smith
Improved VDC emulation. Improved MPS803 printer emulation.
- Daniel Kahlin
Worked on DTV VIC emulation, palette, DTV SID support in resid,
better DMA/Blitter support and did lots of refactoring. Added
new monitor commands and features. Improved the VIC emulation
for xvic. Made MIDI driver code for Win32. Rewrote the xvic
cartridge system. Added Mega-Cart and Final Expansion V3.2
support to xvic. Wrote large parts of the new VIC-II emulation
used in x64sc, especially the dot clock domain emulation. Wrote
many test programs for hardware analysis.
- Andreas Matthies
Improved the datasette support, the VIC20 video emulation and
some UI stuff in the Win32 and DOS ports. He also wrote the
BeOS port and implemented video/audio capture support. Improved
history recording/playback and implemented support for video
recording and the netlink feature. Made the Win32 user
changable keyboard shortcut system. Improved CIA and VIA
emulation. Worked on x64sc, especially interrupt timing.
Improved the FFMPEG support and started the ’in-source’
FFMPEG support/merge. Wrote test programs. Various
bug(fixe)s. ;-)
- Ulrich Schulz
Maintains the Dingoo port(s).
- Stefan Haubenthal
Added some Amiga fixes.
- Thomas Giesel
Added new monitor commands, features and improvements.
- Ingo Korb
Corrected block allocation and interleave for c1541/vdrive,
added rudimentary xplus4 tape recording support, fixed some GTK2
issues, corrected a case of missing Pi symbols in petcat, changed
the trap opcode byte, stopped the high-level serial drive code
from responding to addresses 16-30 and was forced to update this
entry himself.
- Antti S. Lankila
Made the ReSID-fp engine, rewrote the PAL emulation code and
fixed the sound core for lower latency. Rewrote DTV SID support
(ReSID-dtv). Improved 1541 drive rotation emulation. Worked on
x64sc. Added RSID BASIC tunes support to vsid. Several ReSID
fixes and improvements.
- Christian Vogelgsang
Maintained the Mac OS X port. Added Intel Mac support and
universal binary creation. Wrote the build scripts for all
external Mac libraries and the bindist bundle tool. Improved
the TFE chip emulation. Added some GTK+ fixes.
- Dag Lem
Implemented the reSID SID emulation engine and video hardware
scaling.
- Spiro Trikaliotis
Copyright © 2000-2011
Wrote the Win32 console implementation for the built-in
monitor, corrected some REU related bugs, improved the CIA
emulation, added com-port CIA support to the Win32 port, added
text copy and paste support to the Win32 port, added support
for the TFE and RR-Net (cs8900a), and wrote some further
patches.
- Hannu Nuotio
Copyright © 2007-2011
Implemented DTV flash emulation, DTV support in the monitor,
large parts of the DTV VIC, burst mode and skip cycle emulation
as well as many other things. Added NEOS and Amiga mouse,
paddle and light pen support. Added new monitor commands and
features, including memmap. Made MIDI support and OSS MIDI
driver. Implemented most of the SDL UI. Rewrote xvic CPU/VIC-I
core for cycle based emulation. Implemented C64 cartridge
snapshot support. Initiated and worked on all parts of
implementing x64sc. Wrote test programs.
- Andreas Boose
Copyright © 1998-2010
Gave lots of information and bug reports about the VIC-II, the
6510 and the CIAs; moreover, he wrote several test-routines
that were used to improve the emulation. He also added
cartridge support and has been the main head behind the drive
and datasette emulation since version 0.15. Also added several
UI elements to the DOS, Win32 and *nix ports. He rewrote the
C128 emulation adding Z80 mode, C64 mode and function ROM
support, wrote the screenshot and the event system and started
the plus4 emulator. Restructured the serial bus emulation and
added realdrive and rawdrive support.
- Tibor Biczo
Copyright © 1998-2010
Improved the Win32 port and plus4 emulation.
- M. Kiesel
Copyright © 2007-2010
Started implementing x64dtv. The C64DTV memory model and early
versions of the DMA and Blitter engine have been implemented by
him. Added new monitor commands and features.
- Andreas Dehmel
Copyright © 1999-2007
Wrote the Acorn RISC OS port.
- David Hansel
Copyright © 2003-2005
Wrote the Star NL10 printer driver, implemented IEC devices and
improved the tape emulation.
- Markus Brenner
Copyright © 2000-2004
Added VDC emulation to x128 and added support for some more
cartridges.
- Thomas Bretz
Copyright © 1999-2004
Started the OS/2 port.
- Daniel Sladic
Copyright © 1997-2001
Started the work on hardware-level 1541 emulation and wrote the
new monitor introduced with VICE 0.15.
- André Fachat
Copyright © 1996-2001
Wrote the PET and CBM-II emulators, the CIA and VIA emulation,
the IEEE488 interface, implemented the IEC serial bus in ‘xvic’
and made tons of bug fixes.
- Ettore Perazzoli
Copyright © 1996-1999
Made the 6510, VIC-II, VIC-I and CRTC emulations, part of the
hardware-level 1541 emulation, speed optimizations, bug fixes,
the event-driven cycle-exact engine, the Xt/Xaw/Xfwf-based GUI
for X11, a general code reorganization, the new resource
handling, most of the documentation. He also wrote the DOS port
and the initial Win32 port (well, somebody had to do it).
- Teemu Rantanen
Copyright © 1993-1994, 1997-1999
Implemented the SID emulation and the trap-based disk drive and
serial bus implementation; added support for multiple display
depths under X11. Also wrote
c1541
- Jouko Valta
Copyright © 1993-1996
Wrote
petcat
and c1541
, T64
handling, user
service and maintenance (most of the work in x64 0.3.x was made
by him); retired from the project in July 96, after VICE
0.10.0.
- Jarkko Sonninen
Copyright © 1993-1994
He was the founder of the project, wrote the old version of the
6502 emulation and the XDebugger, and retired from the project
after x64 0.2.1.
Internationalization Team:
- Mikkel Holm Olsen
Copyright © 2009-2017
Provided the Danish user interface translations and fixed a few monitor bugs.
Martin Pottendorfer
Copyright © 2000-2017
Provided the German user interface translations.
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez Bas
Copyright © 2011-2017
Provided the Spanish user interface translations.
Paul Dubé
Copyright © 2004-2017
Provided the French user interface translations.
Czirkos Zoltan
Copyright © 2006-2017
Provided the Hungarian user interface translations.
Karai Csaba
Copyright © 2006-2017
Provided the Hungarian user interface translations.
Andrea Musuruane
Copyright © 2001-2017
Provided the Italian user interface translations.
Jesse Lee
Copyright © 2011-2016
Provided the Korean user interface translations.
Marco van den Heuvel
Copyright © 2005-2017
Provided the Dutch user interface translations.
Jarek Sobolewski
Copyright © 2011-2017
Provided the Polish user interface translations.
Michael Litvinov
Copyright © 2010-2017
Provided the Russian user interface translations.
Peter Krefting
Copyright © 2000-2017
Provided the Swedish user interface translations.
Emir Akaydin
Copyright © 2008-2017
Provided the Turkish user interface translations.
Documentation Team:
- Daniel Kahlin
Groepaz
Kajtar Zsolt
Marco van den Heuvel
Olaf Seibert
External contributors:
(We hope we have not forgotten anybody; if you think we have,
please tell us.)
The people around the world providing results from running our
test programs on various machines deserve a special mention:
- hedning (Drean C64 PAL-N, various C64 PAL boxes)
- Jason Compton (Various C64 and C128 NTSC boxes)
- The Woz (Drean C64 PAL-N)
- Thierry (Drean C64 PAL-N)
- MOS6569 (C64C PAL)
- Mike (VIC-20 PAL)
- Wilson (VIC-20 NTSC)
- Vicassembly (VIC-20 NTSC)
- David "jbevren" Wood (C64 NTSC-OLD)
Thanks also to everyone else for sending suggestions, ideas,
bug reports, questions and requests. In particular, a warm
thanks goes to the following people:
- Lutz Sammer
- Ralph Mason
- George Caswell
- Jasper Phillips
- Luca Forcucci
- Asger Alstrup
- Bernhard Schwall
- Salvatore Valente
- Arthur Hagen
- Douglas Carmichael
- Ferenc Veres
- Frank Reichel
- Ullrich von Bassewitz
- Holger Busse
- David "jbevren" Wood
- Gary Glenn
Last but not least, a very special thank to Andreas Arens, Lutz
Sammer, Edgar Tornig, Christian Bauer, Wolfgang Lorenz, Miha
Peternel, Per Hĺkan Sundell, David Horrocks, Benjamin Rosseaux and William McCabe
for writing cool emulators to compete with. :-)