How to run x64 Commodore 64 emulator?

Xeratul · 02-08-2015, 12:03 PM

Hello,

I run but nothing.

Code:

x64 -autostart "GOLDENAXE.D64:run me"

It states : reset - hard reset,...

https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/otherosfs/vice

You must create your .vice/C64 to get it into x11 at least.

Regards

qlue · 02-09-2015, 06:09 AM

The VICE version in the Debian repositories comes without the Kernal rom files due to copyright distribution issues.
The source code has the rom files though.

Download the source code from Sourceforge and extract it to a suitable location on your hard drive. (for example, your home directory.)

Open a terminal window and navigate to the directory that contains the rom files. If you've downloaded the vice-2.4 package and extracted it to your home folder, the path should be;

Code:

cd ~/vice-2.4/data/

N.B: vice-2.4 is the latest package at the time of writing this.

Now, copy the contents of that directory to /usr/lib/vice/
This must be done as root so use sudo.

Code:

sudo cp -vrn * /usr/lib/vice/

the options in that cp command are as follows, v means verbose, r means recursively and n is no-clobber. (i.e: don't overwrite a file that already exists.)

After this, VICE should work properly.

Xeratul · 02-10-2015, 07:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by qlue

The VICE version in the Debian repositories comes without the Kernal rom files due to copyright distribution issues.
The source code has the rom files though.

Download the source code from Sourceforge and extract it to a suitable location on your hard drive. (for example, your home directory.)

Open a terminal window and navigate to the directory that contains the rom files. If you've downloaded the vice-2.4 package and extracted it to your home folder, the path should be;

Code:

cd ~/vice-2.4/data/

N.B: vice-2.4 is the latest package at the time of writing this.

Now, copy the contents of that directory to /usr/lib/vice/
This must be done as root so use sudo.

Code:

sudo cp -vrn * /usr/lib/vice/

the options in that cp command are as follows, v means verbose, r means recursively and n is no-clobber. (i.e: don't overwrite a file that already exists.)

After this, VICE should work properly.

thank you!

And how do you launch an D64 file from the commamnd line ?
eg. "GOLDENAXE.D64"

Regards

qlue · 02-11-2015, 02:12 AM

Current versions of VICE just need you to add the filepath as an argument.
Navigate to the directory where the file GOLDENAXE.D64 resides and type;

Code:

x64 GOLDENAXE.D64

or type;

Code:

x64 <path-to-filename>

Where <path-to-filename> is the full directory path to where the file is currently resident.

Note that this assumes that you are using a terminal emulator from a working GUI. If you're running headless, you must first run startx (assuming it's configured) and then use a terminal emulator to launch x64.

An easier way is to right click on the D64 file and set the default application to x64 with the, "use a custom command" option.
Then x64 will behave as a runtime environment and run automagically when you click on a .D64 file from the file manager.