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Re: Pirates! and VICE

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On 24 Mar 2026 as I do recall,
          Rob Heaton  wrote:

> Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:
> > I used to be able to play Commodore 64 games, notably Sid Miere's
> > Pirates! (which I never actually played on a C64!) using the VICE
> > emulator.
> > However, there no longer seems to be an up to date version of the
> > emulator for RISC OS - the Arc Wiki https://arcwiki.org.uk/index.php/VICE
> > says that support for RISC OS was removed in 2012.  The outdated version
> > I managed to find on the link given (dated 2010) doesn't seem to be
> > 32-bit compatible
> > https://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/vice-riscos2_2.zip
> > and of course it runs like sludge under Aemulor, and seemingly with no
> > sound - though it does run.
> >
> > I succeeded in locating a disc image for the game at http://csdb.dk/release/?id=113902
> > and with rather more difficulty worked out how to actually load and run
> > it (you have to hold down Shift while dragging the D64 file to one of
> > VICE's drive icons, then double-click on one of the lines in the
> > resulting listing - in the case of this particular disc image, as it
> > happens a lot of them are just dummy entries used to create ASCII art!)
> > 
> > But while I got some of the shorter programs to run, painfully slowly -
> > the emulator is printing text to the screen at about 1cps - I couldn't
> > get the game itself to run at all.  I left it for about half an hour and
> > when I came back it was still stuck with the disc light active and the
> > message LOADING at 26% emulation speed.  I don't know if it had crashed
> > or simply still hadn't finished initialising.
> > 

> Have you tried the version of VICE that is available on RISC OS Ports?
> 
> https://riscosports.co.uk/emulation.html
> 
Thanks - that works without Aemulor, which is definitely a start, and
says that it is running at 100% speed  (although it still doesn't seem
to be getting anywhere with loading that particular disc image right
now... we'll give it a while longer)

-- 
Harriet Bazley                     ==  Loyaulte me lie ==

Mate, this parrot wouldn't VOOM if you put four million volts through it!

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Pirates! and VICE Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-03-22 22:15 +0000
  Re: Pirates! and VICE Rob Heaton <rob@robheaton.co.uk> - 2026-03-24 22:05 +0000
    Re: Pirates! and VICE Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-03-26 18:32 +0000
      Re: Pirates! and VICE Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-03-26 18:44 +0000
        Re: Pirates! and VICE Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2026-03-27 01:37 +0000

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