To make the miniature floppy drive LED light up when VICE is using the virtual disk image, we need to patch VICE source code and write some new code to pass instructions on to the PI and toggle the LED activity light.
Let’s download, compile, and install the VICE Commodore 64 emulator on a fresh Raspberry Pi 4 install. We’ll make sure it works in a non windows console by running a Commodore demo program.