High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The software program VICE, standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is an emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers, running on Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, Mac OS X, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, and BeOS host machines. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public Licence. As of 2004, VICE was one of the most widely-used emulators of the Commodore 8-bit microcomputers. It is also one of the few usable Commodore emulators to exist on free NIX platforms, and one of the first to be distributed under GNU GPL. It is available for most Linux distributions.