VICE

This article is about the software emulator. For the magazine, see Vice (magazine). For other uses, see Vice (disambiguation).
VICE
Developer(s)VICE Team
Initial release1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Stable release
3.6.1 / January 24, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-01-24)[1]
Preview release
3.6.2-dev-r42514 / August 16, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-08-16)
Repositorysourceforge.net/projects/vice-emu/
Written inC and GTK+
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOS, Linux, MS-DOS, RISC OS, BeOS, QNX, OS/2, Solaris, SunOS, OpenServer, AmigaOS, Dingoo, Syllable Desktop, MiNT, MINIX 3
Size56.3 MB (GTK3VICE-3.6.1-win64)[2]
Available inEnglish, Danish, German, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
TypeEmulator
LicenseGNU GPLv2[3]
Websitevice-emu.sourceforge.io
As of16 August 2022

The software program VICE, standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is a free and cross platform emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers. It runs on Linux, Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, macOS, OS/2, RISC OS, QNX, GP2X, Pandora, Dingoo A320, Syllable, and BeOS host machines. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public License since 2004.

VICE for Microsoft Windows (Win32) prior to v3.3 were known as WinVICE,[4][2] the OS/2 variant is called Vice/2, and the emulator running on BeOS is called BeVICE.

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