Driver	Lets you pick a video card to output Vices graphics if you have more then one.
Bitdepth	Sets the colour depth of the fullscreen displayed by Vice.
Resolution	Sets the resolution of the fullscreen displayed by Vice.
Refresh Rate	Sets the display frequency of the fullscreen display in hz
VBLANK synchronization	Can help stop "tearing" of scrolling games by synchronizing the display to your monitor.
Render to DX Primary surface	Uses DirectX to display the emulator screen. Can help speed things up in some cases.

Lets you choose the colour used on the monochrome screen.

 

This screen lets you choose the model of the CBM-II to be emulated and how much RAM it has.

Memory	Lets you choose between low and high res screen for the CBM-II.
RAM Banks	Not sure. Somthing to do with memory addressing.

 

Before I start to shorten things a bit because on each page there is a button called "Use IEC Device". This button enables the device for Vice to use. The following will describe what the options for the printer and drive pages do.

Printer Emulation	Sets how Vice emulates a printer attached to the CBM-II.
Printer driver	This option lets you set which printer is emulated. It can be ASCII for generic printing, the Commodore MPS803 printer or the Star NL10 printer. The latter two are better for graphic output.
Output	Sets whether to output text or a graphic file.
Output to file #	Sets which printer output file to use.
Output file #1 name	Set up as a file called viceprnt.out which is saved as a file and can be edited later by you.
Output file #2 name	Defaults to LPT1: which is your printer port.
Output file #3 name	Defaults to LPT2: which is a second printer port if you have one.
Send Formfeed	Sends a command to the printer to finish printing and feed out the paper.

Disk Image	Lets you select a disk image file to put into your disk drive.
Directory	Lets you use a folder as a "virtual" disk. The P00 bit is the file type used on Commodore disks.
Real IEC device	This option is only highlighted if you have a real Commodore disk drive attached to your PC. This is done through a special interface. Read the Vice docs for more info.
None	Says that there's nothing in the drive.

 

Drive Type	Vice emulates several Commodore disk drives. Here you can select which drive Vice emulates. If you're a bit of a techie then you can find details of the supported drives here.
40 track handling	Floppy disks at the time of the CBM-II only used 40 tracks for data. This option lets Vice use more if it needs to.

This option will only work when C500 support is emulated.

The options in here help with compatability in games with sprites. New colors sets the CBM-II colour palette to different settings.

All this window really does is set the speed of the datasette motor. Use only if you are sure you know what your doing. Oh the Reset Datasette with CPU option will "rewind" the tape if you reset the CBM-II.

Joystick in port #...	Lets you set the keys/joystick that you wnat to use in Vice.
Select fire button	Lets you set which joystick button is used for fire.
Autofire speed (1..32)	Lets you set the speed of the autofire button on a joystick.
Menu 1	Lets you use an analog joystick axis to set the speed of the autofire,
Menu 2	Lets you select a controller button to use as the autofire button.
Config Keyset ...	Lets you set keys or controller movements as joystick movements in Vice.

This screen lets you use alternative keymaps for use in Vice. This is useful if you don't have a standard US/UK keyboard. The two types are symbolic which means it maps a key combination to a single key on the CBM-II and positional which maps the keys on your keyboard the the key that is on the same position on the CBM-II keyboard. To do this it uses keyboard files which you can find documentation for in Vices help files.

DirectX/WMM driver	These are the drivers for your sound caqrd in windows. Each one has it's benefits on different sound cards. You'll just have to see which one siuts your card best.
Sample Frequency	This is the quality of the sound produced by Vice. The higher the better but at the cost of speed on low end machines.
Sound Buffer Size	The sound buffer size helps to stop sound stuttering by always keeping a bit in memory.
Oversampling Factor	Boosts up the volume
Synchronization Method	All this does is decide how Vice syncs the sound to the video being produced. Flexible is probably best unless you get sound problems.

 

SID Engine	This is the way the Vice emulates the SID sound chip used in the CBM-II. You have fastSID which is quick but not accurate, reSID which is very accurate but can slow things down and Catweazle/hardSID which are special bits of hardware for your PC to emulate C64 sound.
SID Model	Selecte which SID chip to emulate.
SID Stereo	Emulates a second SID chip giving stereo sound.
SID Filters	Emulates programmable filters used in SID chips. Again can slow things down on ghetto PC's.

The ReSID lets you set up how accurate the ReSID emualtion is and the HardSID tab lets you set up your HardSID device if you have one.

This window lets you change the ROMS use in the CBM-II. Over periods of time the ROMs get changed and updated for different revisions of the CBM-II and if you can get hold of them you can use them in Vice.

As you can see this is for experts only. I haven't got a clue either!

This window sets up Vices RS232 (serial port) output. Like the printer you can send the output to a file or a device connected to your computers serial port. This again is more for the expert but you may find it more familiar as you get more used to Vice and the computers it emulates.

The ACIA is the serial interface used by the CBM-II for communication. There isn't much documentation on it but it is required for certain serial devices to work.