I want to play games on the vice emulator on Ubuntu 14.04. I have never managed to get vice working in Ubuntu. What are the steps needed to achieve this?
I managed to compile it with trial-and-errors adding the following libraries:
sudo apt install xa65 libreadline-dev libxaw7-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libpulse-dev
and compiled with
./configure
make
sudo make install
...and it seems to work (the lib hack is not needed anymore). Seems a quite live project!
You can compile the native version pretty easily (well...). Tested with version 2.4.
(compact instructions --- tell me if you need more details).
1) download the last version from http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/
2) unpack it where you want
tar xvzf vice-3.1.tar.gz
cd vice-3.1
3) install required dev libraries:
sudo apt install build-essential libvte-dev libasound2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgnome2-dev byacc flex
4) configure, compile and install (it will go in /usr/local/). On my netbook, I have a coffee after the "make"...
./configure --enable-gnomeui
make
sudo make install
5) if you machine is 64 bit, do the following (as root)
cd /usr/local/lib
sudo ln -s ../lib64/vice .
(this is probably a bug; the emulator will search the ROMS in /usr/local/lib even if the installation is a 64 bit one and the install program will put the libraries under /usr/local/lib64/)
6) type x64 and Enjoy! (this thing evokes a tear... my first computer ever was a C64. If only I did not lose my discs...)
