This is the repository of the scripts that were used in helping in an attempt of critically reading the VICE¹ source code.

VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, Syllable or Mac OS X machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers.

More information on this analysis can be found under https://jache.re/notes/VICE.

1. Download the source distribution from https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/index.html#download ² and extract to vice-source-code in this folder
2. Copy all files ending in *.c and *.h from the downloaded archive's src folder to this repository's src folder
   • Flatten the hierarchy in the repository's src folder, no subfolders
   • Either do that manually or execute scripts/01-prepare-corpus.sh
3. You are now able to execute the python scripts

• scripts/02-split.py splits the provided source code files into files with either just comments or just code, and moves them to the appropriate subfolders. This helps if you want to have a dataset with just one of the two textual elements.
• scripts/03-vice-network.py generates a CSV file with the relations between files and their authors. The CSV is meant to be imported in Gephi after.
• scripts/04-authors-network.py generates a CSV file with the relations between files according to their #include statements. Also meant to be imported in Gephi after.