
  VICE  0.14.2     						  April 1998


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 This is version 0.14.2 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, R5 or
 later.

 The following programs are included:

   - x64, a C64 emulator;

   - xvic, a VIC20 emulator;

   - xpet, a PET 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.html, documentation for the recomment utility;

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

   - doc/PETdoc.txt, documentation about the PET internals;

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

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

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

   - doc/drive_info.txt, 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) 1993-1998 Ettore Perazzoli, Teemu Rantanen,
 Andr 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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
    02111-1307  USA

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