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2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
OVCC
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| Name | The portable and open Virtual Colo(u)r Computer (OVCC) |
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| Date | March 8, 2023 |
| Year | 2023 |
| Author(s) | Joseph Forgione |
| Media | Download only |
| Memory | MEMORY NEEDED |
| O.S. | Linux, MacOS X |
| Platform | PLATFORM NEEDED |
| Publisher | PUBLISHER NEEDED |
| Requires | REQUIREMENTS NEEDED |
| Video Mode | VIDEO MODE NEEDED |
| Download | Download |
| Notes | short description |
| Info Source | J.Forgione |
| About the Software Info Box | |
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History
OVCC is a fork of VCC, the Virtual Color Computer emulation program. OVCC's main objectives are:
- To provide a native version of VCC for Linux and Mac OS X
- To take advantage of UNIX shared memory support (obviously not in the Windows version)
The shared memory support provides a 40% improvement in efficiency and performance when compared to not using it. From a user perspective the experience was meant to similar and hence the similarity in user interface. Internally some major changes had to be made to accommodate a new GUI interface. This affected both the core and loadable device libraries. However, anyone familiar with the code of VCC could look at OVCC and see all the similarities.
Binaries for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS, as well as Windows are available.
See the second link above for a Github repo containing an XCode project file for Mac OS X, and a link to a binary for Max OS X arm64 (M1 and later).