However, this new build of VICE 3.5 and the latest Raspberry Pi OS had horrible performance right away. Simply hit F12, scroll down to Video Settings -> Screen Settings -> Fullscreen. Now, depending on how this all comes together, you might have a really tiny C64 screen in the corner of your big monitor. 圆4sc and was greeted with an old blue friend: Hello, Retro my old friend…

Moving into the /home/pi/viceinstall/bin directory, I typed. D64 file and uploaded that to the VICE Pi.

I downloaded a simple demo from csdb.dk by Booze Design known as ‘ The Elder Scrollers‘. Step 5 – Download a demo and see it perform horribly This step seems to no longer be necessary! We used to have to go into raspi-config and enable the ‘Fake KMSDRM’ driver, but with changes to how we’re building SDL compared to prior versions, there doesn’t seem to be that need to change the driver configuration anymore. Step 4 – Setting the Video Driver in Raspi-Config For normal game play I use 圆4sc but fall back to 圆4 if I detect heavy lag. That being said, I find I like to use 圆4 on the C64 DemoScene that still lives on to this day – otherwise the demoscenes are quite choppy. What’s the difference? Seems the SC binary is the preferred as it focuses on accuracy of emulation over speed. By default VICE builds create an 圆4sc binary, but NOT an 圆4 binary anymore. Which binary to run? 圆4sc or 圆4? The configure line from VICE in the script has ‘–enable-圆4’. The script should be re-runnable except for the piece where we move some videocore headers around, you may need to ‘undo’ that and re-run the script at this point if it breaks in that area. It’s configured so if it runs into any error, it aborts. The latest version of the script will always be at the link above. Installs VICE into your home directory (/home/pi/vice-) – Because I dislike /usr/local for vice.Configures VICE to enable fast-sid options and the 圆4 ‘old’ build.Downloads VICE 3.5 compilation dependencies.Compiles and installs the modified SDL2.0.14 library – this is based off not SDL itself but RetroPie’s SDL mirror for 2.0.14.Enables kmsdrm, video-rpi, and a few other tweaks.Downloads SDL 2.0.14 from a fork of RetroPie’s fork of SDL2 with pi specific modifications.Performs the general sudo apt update/upgrade.I’ve also decided to just script most of this out, but I’ll cover the main points: I execute it with this command directly: wget -O - | bash Look it over yourself if you’re concerned about just running some guy’s script. You can just download it, chmod +x the script, and run it. I’ve created a script that does this on a fresh Pi install.

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