VICE 2.3 released

e5frog · Post by **e5frog** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:45 am

Have never heard of Fedora but binaries can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vice-em ... /binaries/

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 2:49 am

Excellent new release

. I particularly like the CRT emulation, and the true aspect ratio adjustment. Minor flaw: the vpl external palette I was using is not working anymore. I guess it's because of different gamma correction, as stated in the docs.

e5frog · Post by **e5frog** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:55 am

Isn't the "CRT emulation" the same as the mode called "PAL emulation" in the previous version?

I had to clear away the vice.ini to make the picture gamma appear right and to be able to save it, have you tried that to make that vpl palette work?

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:37 am

I tried, but it won't work, even installing VICE in a computer where previous versions were never installed. The vpl palette is reported below:

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#
# VICE Palette file
#
# Syntax:
# Red Green Blue Dither
#

# Black
00 00 00 0
# White
FF FF FF E
# Red
B4 18 18 4
# Cyan
4C E6 D8 C
# Purple
BC 29 CA 8
# Green
42 E4 36 4
# Blue
32 2A C8 4
# Yellow
D2 E1 26 C
# Orange
CA 5A 02 4
# Light Orange
DE AC 80 4
# Pink
DC 94 94 8
# Light Cyan
A5 F4 EC 4
# Light Purple
E0 9A E4 8
# Light Green
A0 F2 9A 8
# Light Blue
9C 92 E4 8
# Light Yellow
EF F8 9A C

Hints?

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:10 am

I solved this problem:

1) The new vpl file format has blank lines between colours, and it won't work if written the old way. A VICE 2.3 version of the vpl file for "true" VIC colours can be downloaded HERE.

2) Nevertheless, choosing this palette from the VICE menu (SETTINGS > VIDEO SETTINGS > VIC PALETTE > check External Palette and browse for file) will give an error message. You have to edit VICE.INI instead, as follows:

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[VIC20]
...
VICVideoCache=1
VICDoubleScan=0
HwScalePossible=0
VICScale2x=0
VICDoubleSize=1
VICPaletteFile="6561-101-2.vpl"
VICExternalPalette=1

...and restart VICE. Of course, you will put 6161-101-2.vpl in the VIC20 dir of VICE. Et voilà!

blackystardust · Post by **blackystardust** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:25 am

I have put up windows external palette loading fixed binaries, check out the VICE sf homepage for the links.

Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.

e5frog · Post by **e5frog** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:10 am

It really sucks when they change something that trivial and render all old files useless.

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:36 pm

blackystardust wrote:I have put up windows external palette loading fixed binaries, check out the VICE sf homepage for the links.

Signed, Marco van den Heuvel.

Thanks Marco, maybe I do something wrong, but I tried them and still it gives the "could not load palette file" error in the dialog box

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