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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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VICE

This article is about the software emulator. For the magazine, see Vice (magazine). For other uses, see Vice (disambiguation).
VICE
DeveloperVICE Team
Release1993; 33 years ago (1993)
Stable release
3.9 / December 24, 2024; 21 months ago (2024-12-24)[1]
Preview release
3.6.2-dev-r42514 / August 16, 2022; 4 years ago (2022-08-16)
Written inC and GTK+
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOS, Linux, MS-DOS, RISC OS, BeOS, QNX, OS/2, Solaris, SunOS, OpenServer, AmigaOS, Dingoo, Syllable Desktop, MiNT, MINIX 3
Size56.3 MB (GTK3VICE-3.6.1-win64)[2]
Available inEnglish, Danish, German, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
TypeEmulator
LicenseGNU GPLv2[3]
Websitevice-emu.sourceforge.io
Repositorysourceforge.net/projects/vice-emu/
As of16 August 2022

The software program VICE, standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is a free and cross platform emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers. It runs on Linux, Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, macOS, OS/2, RISC OS, QNX, GP2X, Pandora, Dingoo A320, Syllable, and BeOS host machines. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public License since 2004.

VICE for Microsoft Windows (Win32) prior to v3.3 were known as WinVICE,[4][2] the OS/2 variant is called Vice/2, and the emulator running on BeOS is called BeVICE.

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The development of VICE began in 1993 by Finnish programmer Jarkko Sonninen, who was the founder of the project. Sonninen retired from the project in 1994.[5]

VICE 2.1, released on December 19, 2008, emulates the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore Plus/4, C64 Direct-to-TV (with its additional video modes) and all the Commodore PET models including the CBM-II but excluding the 'non-standard' features of the SuperPET 9000. WinVICE supports digital joysticks via a parallel port driver, and, with a CatWeasel PCI card, is planned to perform hardware SID playback (requires optional SID chip installed in socket).

As of 2004, VICE was one of the most widely used emulators of the Commodore 8-bit personal computers.[6]: 5  It is also one of the few usable Commodore emulators to exist on free Unix-based platforms, including most Linux and BSD distributions.

VICE 3.4 drops support for Syllable Desktop, SCO, QNX, SGI, AIX, OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP/Rhapsody, and Solaris/OpenIndiana, as well as remaining traces of support for Minix, SkyOS, UNIXWARE, and Sortix, due to lack of staff.

VICE 3.5 drops explicit support for OS/2 and AmigaOS, due to the transition to GTK3 UI.

In December 2022, the VICE emulator was used as an inspiration for an Apple Macintosh emulator powered by a Raspberry Pi.[7]

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References

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  1. ^ "VICE - the Versatile Commodore Emulator". VICE. 24 January 2022. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022 – via SourceForge. (24 January 2022) Version 3.6.1 released
  2. ^ a b "VICE - Home / releases / binaries / windows". VICE. 24 January 2022. Archived from the original on 16 August 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022 – via SourceForge.
  3. ^ "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2". VICE. June 1991. Archived from the original on 12 July 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022 – via SourceForge.
  4. ^ "Download VICE for Windows systems". VICE. n.d. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022 – via SourceForge. Binary for MS-Windows 32bit: WinVICE-3.2-x86.7z
  5. ^ "18. Acknowledgments". VICE - the Versatile Commodore Emulator (User Manual). 24 January 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022 – via SourceForge.
  6. ^ Carless, Simon (1 August 2004). "Chapter 1.2 - Play Commodore 64 Games Without the C-64". Gaming Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools (1st ed.). O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0596007140. LCCN 2005281528. OCLC 1156947869. OL 17922666M. Retrieved 16 August 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ "Return of the Mac". 27 December 2022.

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The software program VICE, standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is a free and cross platform emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers. It runs on Linux, Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, macOS, OS/2, RISC OS, QNX, GP2X, Pandora, Dingoo A320, Syllable, and BeOS host machines. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public License since 2004. VICE for Microsoft Windows (Win32) prior to v3.3 were known as WinVICE, the OS/2 variant is called Vice/2, and the emulator running on BeOS is called BeVICE.

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