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VICE C64 emulator starts up with wrong colors [message #290546] Tue, 26 May 2015 16:31 Go to next message
Brandon Taylor is currently offline  Brandon Taylor
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Hello,

I recently installed VICE on an Arch Linux system, but when I start up the Commodore 64 emulator (/usr/bin/x64), it starts up with the wrong colors (red instead of blue)! What's wrong here, and how can I fix this?
Re: VICE C64 emulator starts up with wrong colors [message #290547 is a reply to message #290546] Tue, 26 May 2015 17:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Andreas Kohlbach is currently offline  Andreas Kohlbach
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Brandon Taylor wrote on 26. May 2015:
>
> I recently installed VICE on an Arch Linux system, but when I start up
> the Commodore 64 emulator (/usr/bin/x64), it starts up with the wrong
> colors (red instead of blue)! What's wrong here, and how can I fix
> this?

First I thought you might have picked the wrong model. But after testing
here it seems all have (light) blue colors here anyway.

If nothing helps, move your ~/.vice/vicerc somewhere else. Next start it
should create a new file. Although it might bail out due to missing
kernal- and other roms locations. Look them up from the vicerc you just
moved and tell it the C64 on the command line. Something like

x64 -kernal /usr/lib/vice/data/C64/kernal ...

Hope that helps.
--
Andreas

I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often
as I have to reboot my computer.
Re: VICE C64 emulator starts up with wrong colors [message #290763 is a reply to message #290547] Thu, 28 May 2015 20:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Brandon Taylor is currently offline  Brandon Taylor
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On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 4:19:46 PM UTC-5, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> Brandon Taylor wrote on 26. May 2015:
>>
>> I recently installed VICE on an Arch Linux system, but when I start up
>> the Commodore 64 emulator (/usr/bin/x64), it starts up with the wrong
>> colors (red instead of blue)! What's wrong here, and how can I fix
>> this?
>
> First I thought you might have picked the wrong model. But after testing
> here it seems all have (light) blue colors here anyway.
>
> If nothing helps, move your ~/.vice/vicerc somewhere else. Next start it
> should create a new file. Although it might bail out due to missing
> kernal- and other roms locations. Look them up from the vicerc you just
> moved and tell it the C64 on the command line. Something like
>
> x64 -kernal /usr/lib/vice/data/C64/kernal ...
>
> Hope that helps.
> --
> Andreas
>
> I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often
> as I have to reboot my computer.

WEIRD.

See, I also use VICE on Windows, so I can just create a symlink to the Commodore ROM files on my Windows partition instead of crawling the Internet looking for "illegal" copies. Oddly enough, when it read the vicerc file in the ~/.vice symlink, something in that vicerc file got interpreted as "red" instead of "blue".

So what I have done is run a 'diff' command between the old and new vicerc files and pasted the output to a text file which I have uploaded to Dropbox, thus: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gyncp90vr9o29zh/vicerc.diff?dl=0

Have a look and tell me what you see.
Re: VICE C64 emulator starts up with wrong colors [message #290813 is a reply to message #290763] Fri, 29 May 2015 16:20 Go to previous message
Andreas Kohlbach is currently offline  Andreas Kohlbach
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Brandon Taylor wrote on 28. May 2015:
>
> On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 4:19:46 PM UTC-5, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>> Brandon Taylor wrote on 26. May 2015:
>>>
>>> I recently installed VICE on an Arch Linux system, but when I start up
>>> the Commodore 64 emulator (/usr/bin/x64), it starts up with the wrong
>>> colors (red instead of blue)! What's wrong here, and how can I fix
>>> this?
>>
>> First I thought you might have picked the wrong model. But after testing
>> here it seems all have (light) blue colors here anyway.
>>
>> If nothing helps, move your ~/.vice/vicerc somewhere else. Next start it
>> should create a new file. Although it might bail out due to missing
>> kernal- and other roms locations. Look them up from the vicerc you just
>> moved and tell it the C64 on the command line. Something like
>>
>> x64 -kernal /usr/lib/vice/data/C64/kernal ...
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>
> WEIRD.
>
> See, I also use VICE on Windows, so I can just create a symlink to the
> Commodore ROM files on my Windows partition instead of crawling the
> Internet looking for "illegal" copies. Oddly enough, when it read the
> vicerc file in the ~/.vice symlink, something in that vicerc file got
> interpreted as "red" instead of "blue".
>
> So what I have done is run a 'diff' command between the old and new
> vicerc files and pasted the output to a text file which I have uploaded
> to Dropbox, thus:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/gyncp90vr9o29zh/vicerc.diff?dl=0
>
> Have a look and tell me what you see.

I cannot find any color related in there.

Ever tried to use the vicerc of the working installation for the not
working? There might be some file directory errors tough. But hopefully
should start VICE and then you'll see what color it has there.
--
Andreas

I use a Unix based operating system, which means I get laid almost as often
as I have to reboot my computer.
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