Vice Commodore emulator, keyboard doesn't work

**mocha** · July 29th, 2007

Does the Vice emulator in the repositories not work in Fiesty? I can install it and get games loaded, but my keyboard input doesn't seem to work. Is there another C64 emulator available for Feisty that works properly? Thanks.

**Robin T Cox** · July 30th, 2007

The keyboard will work, but it seems not for all games. For example, I can't get it to work for Impossible Mission. To set it up, there is a control on the menu that comes up when you hold down your right mouse button.

The available keyboard is via your numeric keypad. To use it, your Num Lock needs to be On. Use the number keys plus the 0 key on your numeric keypad.

See the VICE Manual for more info.

http://www.viceteam.org/vice_2.html#SEC11

**mocha** · July 31st, 2007

Originally Posted by Robin T Cox

The keyboard will work, but it seems not for all games. For example, I can't get it to work for Impossible Mission.

heheh.. That is exactly the same game I am having problems with.. So, VICE just doesn't work with Impossible Mission? That sucks...

**BoyOfDestiny** · July 31st, 2007

Originally Posted by mocha

heheh.. That is exactly the same game I am having problems with.. So, VICE just doesn't work with Impossible Mission? That sucks...

It works fine with Impossible Mission!

I'm on a laptop so I don't have it set for numeric keypad, also for the joystick setting it needs to be port 2 (you can swap it on the fly with Alt+j, that would probably fix your issue right away I think.)

Screenshots showing impossible mission, and my settings below:

**mocha** · August 2nd, 2007

Originally Posted by BoyOfDestiny

the joystick setting it needs to be port 2 (you can swap it on the fly with Alt+j, that would probably fix your issue right away I think.)

Yep.. That did the trick! Thanks!

**ryoz** · February 27th, 2008

Hi!

My keyboard don't work either. I tried the same solution as above but it didn't work. Im using laptop and kubuntu gutsy. Vice version is 1.22.

Any ideas??

**frenchn00b** · May 18th, 2008

Originally Posted by ryoz

Hi!

My keyboard don't work either. I tried the same solution as above but it didn't work. Im using laptop and kubuntu gutsy. Vice version is 1.22.

Any ideas??

my keyboard does not work either.

Is there alternatives to x64 that works bit better?

Which games you like / recommand to try ?