VICE is an excellent Open Source Commodore C64 emulator. Problem is that the version packaged in the Ubuntu repository is quite old (and buggy as hell under x64). So let’s fix that

First, make sure you have build-essential and libxaw7-dev installed (if not a quick sudo apt-get install build-essential libxaw7-dev will fix that).

Now download the VICE source code from here. Unpack the source and fire up your favorite text editor. We have to fix something

If you try to do a ./configure and make you’ll end up with the following error:

x11video.c:268: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype
x11video.c: In function ‘shmhandler’:
x11video.c:348: error: ‘X_ShmAttach’ undeclared (first use in this function)
x11video.c:348: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
x11video.c:348: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[7]: *** [x11video.o] Error 1
make[7]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11/xaw'
make[6]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11/xaw'
make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

We’ve to work-around this issue. First, open vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11/xaw/x11video.c with you favorite editor. Go to line 348 and replace “X_ShmAttach” with “1″. Save the file.

Now fire up a console and run ./configure. After a few seconds you can do a make and later a sudo make install.

Done

Before you start x64 make sure you have the C64 roms installed (get them from the Windows installation package of VICE and put them into ~/.vice)

Memories

Happy retro hacking!

Tags: C64, Commodore, Linux, VICE