VICE

Thumbs up Gerhard for your work and making it free and ad free. It is pretty good, works very well on android tv (mad catz mojo console)im not sure why people gave bad reviews but many people dont realise you need to bring up the settings menu on vice by pressing the back button on android device or back button on android joypad controller and select settings . You need to have c64 game .dsk files in internal memory or on sd card and load them when you click backbutton on android device and select drive and load a game. i gave four stars as i wanted 2nd player in two player games to work with bluetooth controller. 1 player works well with bluetooth controller. Issue with second controller not recognised in 2 player games. Only with a keyboard 2nd player works. To set up bletooth controller, you need to click in vices settings , then under machine and then joystick settings then select keyset joystick for each Bluetooth joypad and map keyset buttons for each controller.

As a very long-time user of Vice on PC, I was very disappointed in this. It booted fine, but went downhill thereafter... Had to restart phone to get out as it ignored all key presses.

PC version gets 5 stars, this version is terrible. Terrible settings menu, You cannot press any key while you are pressing the shift or Commodore keys, unlike the PC version.

Still trying to figure out how to get rid of those red buttons on the screen. Not a problem with Windows Vice

Works but i cant change the joystick overlay. The floating style sucks

After connecting to c64(dot)com, it says "Error downloading (....)" and just stops there. Please implement some throttling feature to prevent them from blocking users downloading whole bunch of scenes and games, and also make it give some feedback other than just saying "Error". Overall, it's great, but slightly confusing. (If you've used MilkyTracker Android, it'll be easy to adapt to)

The UI makes no sense and is very difficult to use. Couldn't test further as I couldn't load any games poor other software.

After connecting to c64(dot)com, it says "Error downloading (....)" and just stops there. Please implement some throttling feature to prevent them from blocking users downloading whole bunch of scenes and games, and also make it give some feedback other than just saying "Error". Overall, it's great, but slightly confusing. (If you've used MilkyTracker Android, it'll be easy to adapt to)

No one in 2013 will waste his time on an alien user interface like that. God MSDOS was art compared to this. Rubbish

but i cant get my joypad to work with it >.< which is a great shame ='(

161003 - There's a slight difference between 'some difficulties' in loading games' and 'having no clue about how to do that'. A couple of instructions wouldn't be bad (tap this, slide that, and so). The room to write them is available in the description, don't see why not taking 5 minutes to put down a brief explanation. Except the fact that pressing 'PAUSE' brings up the keyboard, and that the D-Pad comes up wherever you touch the screen (useful), I had no clue about how to load games. || Adapted from another user's review: Hit the BACK key on your phone to bring up the device menu while in the app. -> Hit 'Settings' -> Use the D-Pad to get to 'Machine Settings', then D-Pad 'Right' - Go down to select Joystick Settings, then hit right - Go to Joystick Device in Port 1 & 2, select Keyset 1 - Hit left to go back, then down to Define Keysets. - Follow prompts to set keyset 1 to default UI. Can find some useful videos on YouTube about vice on pc, that may help me to it up.

How do you load a game?

It loads fine,runs fine but in title screen ( with the lovely Looney toones style music and flashing letters mayhem in monster land) I can't start the game I press fire swap ports press fire again , press return, press space , whatever I do nothing happens!! Can anybody help me?!! PS I have tried like 10 different Roms of mayhem and all fail

Joy pad keeps moving' very frustrating. As a result I can't even navigate the settings menu to select another input method. The previous version worked very well, but this is now totally unusable..

Interface seems very buggy on my Samsung Galaxy S4, joystick keeps disappearing, app seems to have no hardware joystick compatibility.

Terrible ui, nonresponsive controls, bad joystick support. Disappointed

After recent update I am unable to access menu. I press the back key and app force closes. Happens on both my phone and tablet. Wish I hadn't updated now.

The fact that disk swapping is possible gives this emu a plus over the Frodo C64 emu, but they don't seem to stay in the drive. Love this emu on PC (WinVICE), but the UI and disk drives need work for the Android version.

Was okay before, now I can't even load a game.

Sorry, i appreciate your effort in porting this wonderful emulator but the user interface is beyond logic, totally unusable. Lost 2 hours to configure my usb gamepad and still no result.

No updates in two years? Just found this app and it looks promising but it needs tweaks. Read the comments and see. Needs GUI improvement and prob more but i cant even get past the horrendous menu system. Was this a class project that you no longer care about?

Good emulator after figuring out how to use interface , but horrible for input and could get joystick control to work. Now uninstalling because occasionally it messes up my android back, home and menu buttons I.e. they are no longer on the screen so I can't exit the app. Power button on phone brings up power off screen button but shifted input won't let me select the off button..so phone gets locked. Took me forever to power off my phone to get the emulator off my screen.

Little hard to get it setup, there needs to he a Readme link or something. Start by hitting the back key on your phone to bring up the device menu wile in the app. Hit down to go to Machine Settings then hit right. Go down to select Joystick Settings then hit right. Go to Joystick Device in Port 1&2, select Keyset 1. Hit left to go back, then down to Define Keysets. Follow prompts to set keyset 1 to default UI. Can find some useful videos on YouTube about vice on pc, that helped me setting it up.

I finally figured out the UI a little but that hasn't made it any more usable. I find it very annoying that as soon as I really need to enter text (like entering a filename when creating a disk image) that is exactly the time that the keyboard will not appear. This happens every time so I can safely assume it wasn't tested. Embarrassing release for the developer.

Terrible interface. Sure, I could look up how to format Android directory structures, download file manager to find out where my download folder is, then type the directory and file name to load that ROM I downloaded. But why should I? It's 2015, file browsers exist!

The emulator engine probably does its job well, but using the menus (to load games etc.) and on-screen controls is just terrible. Maybe it could work better on larger screen touch device.

To emulate a C64, you need the C64 keyboard. This emulator was built for the PC and then they slapped a wrapper over it to make it run on android. They beauty of the touchscreen is the opportunity to make the interface look like the original. They do have one that kind of looks right, but it uses a mouse emulator to move the cursor around and click on the keys. By the time you manage to give two commands, the Russians have already sunk you. (Red Storm Rising.) How about making an emulator designed to work with a touchscreen?

Thought I'd give it another go. I'm using Galaxy S5 and managed to load a game but the joystick controls don't work at all. Useless

So I bought C64.emu instead.

What it's the point of this s...

The emulator may be good, but I can't get a single game loaded. The interfaceis completely counterintuitive and messy. Work on it. Until then, *.

After connecting to c64(dot)com, it says "Error downloading (....)" and just stops there. Please implement some throttling feature to prevent them from blocking users downloading whole bunch of scenes and games, and also make it give some feedback other than just saying "Error". Overall, it's great, but slightly confusing. (If you've used MilkyTracker Android, it'll be easy to adapt to)

This emulator works perfectly on my JXDS7800b tablet i really cant understand why there are so many complaints?! Mapped to my joypad and buttons first time loaded up Wizball and was playing in minutes. I think the people having problems arent used to emulators on PC or any device and just expected to load it up and play games on it! This emulator is Fantastic! Cant recomend it enough (and i also bought c64.emu but some games dont play on it)

Sorry guys but this is waaay too fiddly to use. Awful interface. Awful awful awful.

Please fix this would be a great emulator otherwise but this keyboard is a nightmare

The interface is really nasty. I didn't believe the reviews until I tried it myself. Not recommended until major change. Download Frodo to see how to do it.

I managed to open the menu two times, however I still have no idea how I did that. I managed to start a game. Emulation speed was set to wickedly fast instead of 100%. Having no idea how to open the insanely complicated menu, I rather deleted the app. You know, for my sanity.

Absolutely awful. Games that require any keyboard support are completely unusable. Over-complicated UI.

The emulator works well enough, but how do you play games if you can't give user input? edit:I just found the perfect way to give user input! It's called MOGA pocket, and it's a bluetooth controller for Android. It took some fiddling to set up, but there are good instruction-videos on youtube. With that, Vice is now my favourite C64 emulator for Android :D

Major Co Ck up