Vice C64 Emulator now supports SDL2

BuZz · 13 Sept 2016, 23:01

~~I think it's fine actually (is on a fresh build on another machine). I suspect I had built it before removing an old change that we no longer want. Cheers.~~

BuZz · 13 Sept 2016, 23:13

Correction, it's to do with whether fullscreen is set or not - seems though if the res is set in the config, and set to window mode, you get the correct aspect on both my widescreen and 4:3 monitor, so that should do. Looking at the sdl code, it does some checks against the fullscreen setting in the video init code as to whether to set an aspect. I may try patching the code also.

BuZz · 14 Sept 2016, 01:07

vice is now updated.

gizmo98 · 17 Sept 2016, 09:00

You could also test our new SDL2 dispmanx upscaling and aspect ratio settings. Dispmanx upscaling should be a little bit faster than gles upscaling.

jimbo27 · 4 Oct 2016, 09:32

Some days ago I installed the new version of Vice.

I now have trouble with my joystick map. The joystick map does not load on startup when launchin Vice. I have to load it manually (through the emulator menu) in order go get back my joystick bindings.
I did not changed my config files of Vice.

What did i do wrong?

jimbo27 · 8 Oct 2016, 13:21

More detail about the joystick binding bug:
Loading of the joymapfile does work, but it doesn't work fully anymore.

This is my sdl-joymap-C64.vjm:

# VICE joystick mapping file
#
# A joystick map is read in as patch to the current map.
#
# File format:
# - comment lines start with '#'
# - keyword lines start with '!keyword'
# - normal line has 'joynum inputtype inputindex action'
#
# Keywords and their lines are:
# '!CLEAR'    clear all mappings
#
# inputtype:
# 0      axis
# 1      button
# 2      hat
# 3      ball
#
# Note that each axis has 2 inputindex entries and each hat has 4.
#
# action [action_parameters]:
# 0               none
# 1 port pin      joystick (pin: 1/2/4/8/16 = u/d/l/r/fire)
# 2 row col       keyboard
# 3               map
# 4               UI activate
# 5 path&to&item  UI function
#

!CLEAR

# Nintendo Wii Remote Pro Controller
0 0 0 1 1 8
0 0 1 1 1 4
0 0 2 1 1 2
0 0 3 1 1 1
0 0 4 1 0 8
0 0 5 1 0 4
0 0 6 1 0 2
0 0 7 1 0 1

0 1 0 1 1 16
0 1 1 1 1 16
0 1 2 1 1 16
0 1 3 1 1 16
0 1 4 5 Virtual keyboard
0 1 5 5 Statusbar
0 1 6 0
0 1 7 5 Speed settings&Warp mode
0 1 8 4
0 1 9 5 Machine settings&Joystick settings&Swap joystick ports
0 1 10 5 Quit emulator
0 1 11 0
0 1 12 0
0 1 13 1 0 1
0 1 14 1 0 2
0 1 15 1 0 4
0 1 16 1 0 8

Every buttonbinding does work except all those with action_parameter 5 (e.g. 0 1 10 5 Quit emulator).
After launching vice all buttons does work except the buttons with action_parameter = 5. If I load the joystickmap manually through the Vice menu the button bindings work again as intended.

I made a test. Launching Vice and saving the joystickmap by menu results in this sdl-joymap-C64.vjm:

# VICE joystick mapping file
#
# A joystick map is read in as patch to the current map.
#
# File format:
# - comment lines start with '#'
# - keyword lines start with '!keyword'
# - normal line has 'joynum inputtype inputindex action'
#
# Keywords and their lines are:
# '!CLEAR'    clear all mappings
#
# inputtype:
# 0      axis
# 1      button
# 2      hat
# 3      ball
#
# Note that each axis has 2 inputindex entries and each hat has 4.
#
# action [action_parameters]:
# 0               none
# 1 port pin      joystick (pin: 1/2/4/8/16 = u/d/l/r/fire)
# 2 row col       keyboard
# 3               map
# 4               UI activate
# 5 path&to&item  UI function
#

!CLEAR

# Nintendo Wii Remote Pro Controller
0 0 0 1 1 8
0 0 1 1 1 4
0 0 2 1 1 2
0 0 3 1 1 1
0 0 4 1 0 8
0 0 5 1 0 4
0 0 6 1 0 2
0 0 7 1 0 1

0 1 0 1 1 16
0 1 1 1 1 16
0 1 2 1 1 16
0 1 3 1 1 16
0 1 4 5 (null)
0 1 5 5 (null)
0 1 6 0
0 1 7 5 (null)
0 1 8 4
0 1 9 5 (null)
0 1 10 5 (null)
0 1 11 0
0 1 12 0
0 1 13 1 0 1
0 1 14 1 0 2
0 1 15 1 0 4
0 1 16 1 0 8

The keybindings which results in an UI function do get lost at the moment.
But I think this is not RetroPie related. This seems to be a upstream bug. I will report this to http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/

jimbo27 · 8 Oct 2016, 14:01

This seems to be a known bug on upstream side:
https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/bugs/651/

This bug appears since version 2.4.7.28292 and seems not to be resolved yet.

jimbo27 · 10 Nov 2016, 08:38

Upstream bug is now fixed in version r31978. See: https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/bugs/796/

Source head tree:
https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/code/HEAD/tree/

Unfortunately I am not capable of doing a new version for Raspberry.
Any volunteers out there? ;)

AmigaGamer · 11 Oct 2016, 18:18

Hi Jimbo,

sorry for late response, i try to keep an eye on the vice threads since suggesting the updates- had long weekend away due to Play Expo (beer+real c64s!)
Looks like this fix came just after the 2.4.31 source release https://sourceforge.net/projects/vice-emu/files/development-releases/vice-2.4.31.tar.gz/download at r31973 unfortunately. (would have made updating/testing the script really simple).
Ill build the code from the svn when i get chance and see how it works/ report any new findings here

jimbo27 · 12 Oct 2016, 07:21

Or we can just wait until 2.4.32 arrives. Perhaps in one month?