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Vice

Oh well, sometimes I think I might be getting older. Remembering my childhood (yes, it was even before my youth) I spent loads of hours on my Commodore 64 and most of that time was gaming. Nowadays I enjoy an occasional session in the really great emulation software Vice, playing my favourite games from back then.¹⁾

Unfortunately, Vice won't run in Wheezy on amd64 systems that actually have an AMD processor due to this bug. Vice will just exit with signal 4 and that's about it.

As a workaround you can install the 32 bit version of Vice, since Debian Wheezy features full multi-arch compatibility. To do so, just follow these steps.

Check if your system already supports the i386 architecture:
```
dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
```
If not, add the i386 architecture:
```
dpkg --add-architecture i386
```
Install the 32 bit version of Vice:
```
apt-get install vice:i386
```
Finally, follow the normal steps to get Vice running: download²⁾ the ROMs and copy them to
```
/usr/lib/vice/<system>/
```

Enjoy!

¹⁾

For my German speaking readers: the C64 Wiki is a great place!

²⁾

Check the Source Tarball

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