
  VICE  0.13.0     						  November 1997


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		   \________//   Versatile Commodore 8-bit Emulator


		   
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 This is version 0.13.0 of VICE, the multi-platform PET/VIC20/C64 emulator.
 This version can be compiled both for MS-DOS and for most Unix system
 provided with the X Window System version 11.

 The following programs are included:

   - x64, a C64 emulator;

   - xvic, a VIC20 emulator;

   - xpet, a PET3032/4032/8032 emulator;

   - c1541, a stand-alone disk image maintenance utility;

   - petcat, a CBM BASIC de-tokenizer;

   - recomment, an iterative database driven reassembler;

   - x64run/xvicrun/xpetrun, simple utilities for running the VICE emulators in
     customized xterms.

 Moreover, the following documents are provided:

   - README, this file;

   - COPYING, the GNU General Public License under which VICE is distributed;
   
   - INSTALL, installation instructions;

   - CHANGES, changes between this and older versions of VICE;

   - BUGS, a list of the most important known bugs of this release (please read
     this before reporting bugs);

   - TODO, a list of what we would like to do next;

   - doc/MANUAL.html, the complete documentation for x64, xvic, xpet, petcat
     and c1541 in HTML format;

   - doc/recomment.doc, documentation for the recomment utility;

   - doc/64doc, documentation about the C64 internals;

   - doc/PETdoc, documentation about the PET internals;

   - doc/cbm_basic_tokens, a list of the CBM BASIC tokens, as supported by the
     petcat utility;

   - doc/serial.doc, description of the IEC serial bus used on the C64, VIC20
     and C128;

   - doc/mnemonics, alphabetical list of all the G65SC802 and G65SC816 opcodes;

   - doc/drive_info, information about the CBM disk drives;

   - doc/Evaluation, VICE evaluation query form: please fill this in and send
     it to tell us what you think about this project.

 For the latest news, have a look at the VICE home page:

     http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fachat/vice/vice.html

 Patches and new versions are made available quite often, so please stay
 tuned.


 Have fun!

     
 Copyright notice
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 VICE is Copyright (c) 1993-1997 Ettore Perazzoli, Teemu Rantanen,
 Andre' Fachat, Jouko Valta, Jarkko Sonninen and Daniel Sladic.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
    (at your option) any later version.
    
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the 
    GNU General Public License for more details. 
    
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. 

 The ROM files in the `C64', `PET' and `VIC20' directories are Copyright (c)
 by Commodore Business Machines.
