{"id":21,"date":"2007-03-17T12:31:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T10:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/??p=21"},"modified":"2007-03-18T19:30:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T17:30:12","slug":"whats-new-in-vice-121-for-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/2007\/03\/whats-new-in-vice-121-for-macs\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new in VICE 1.21 for Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 10th of march the newest version of VICE was released to the public. As your fellow Mac port maintainer I&#8217;ll give you a short summary what&#8217;s new in this version from an Apple Fan&#8217;s point of view&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nFirst of all Mac VICE is now available in two flavors: The well-known <strong>X11 with Athena Widgets<\/strong> user interface and starting with this version, a <strong>Gtk Widgets on X11<\/strong> user interface is available, too. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtk.org\/\">Gtk Library<\/a> provides a nicer user interface build upon X11 and is already used in well known applications like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\">The Gimp<\/a> or the <a href=\"www.gnome.org\">The Gnome Desktop<\/a>. Compared to the Athena widgets the GUI is much more confortable with a menu bar and simple to use UI elements. Unfortunately, the Gtk are no system libs on Macs so I had to pack them into the VICE application bundles. This results in a quite large VICE.app bundle and distribution. So decide yourself: either a small bundle or a comfortable user interface.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nAll VICE emulators are now packed into a single application bundle, called a <strong>Smart Bundle<\/strong>. Why smart, you may ask.. Well, If you click on the bundle a small selection dialog will pop up and allows to select which emulator to run&#8230; That&#8217;s ok if you often switch the emulator. If you prefer the old VICE apps with an own bundle for each emulator you may find the selector cumbersome. Now with a smart bundle you can simply copy or move the VICE.app and rename it like one of the emulators and from then on the named emulator will launch immediately. That&#8217;s what I call smart \ud83d\ude09 The smart bundle allows me to distribute a single (with gtk: large) application bundle and I do not need to duplicate all libs for each emulator bundle.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nThe 1.21 also uses a new <strong>starter script<\/strong> for X11 and GTK+ that embeds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sveinbjorn.org\/platypus\">Platypus<\/a> as an application launcher. I integrated it to add some kind of drag and drop starting of disk images. It works quite well but is not as comfortable as native d&#8217;n&#8217;d as it only works on startup of the VICE emulator.\n<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>tools directory<\/strong> is available with all command line versions of the emulators found there. Just add this to your PATH and call x64, x128&#8230; directly from inside your shell in Terminal.app with all console output redirected there. Very useful for command line users and for debugging or working with the montior.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>FFMPEG multimedia support<\/strong> is compiled in for Macs. This allows you to record sounds directly from the emulation and store them in popular formats (MP3, AIF, WAV&#8230;). Also AVI recording with MP4 video and MP3 sound is available for recording live captures of the emulator (always assumed your Mac is fast enough&#8230;\n<\/li>\n<li>I improved the <strong>TFE (final ethernet) emulation<\/strong> in VICE and compiled it in for Macs. Now you can emulate a network adapter connected to your virtual C64 by attaching it to a real network interface on the Mac. Have a look at the ReadmeOSX.txt for more details and enjoy internet-aware APPs on your C64. Unfortunately, the Airport network interface of portable Macs is not working in this release, but I am working on it&#8230;\n<\/li>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s it for this release! I hope you enjoy it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10th of march the newest version of VICE was released to the public. 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