openMSX v0.3.4

posted in Emulator Release by narvick on Jan 16th, 2004

A new version of the excellent open source MSX emulator, openMSX has been updated recently. There is a lot new in this version, so here's a slightly summarized list of what's new:

Several fixes in VDP emulation; more games and demos work correctly
Added scalers for SDLHi. A scaler is an image filter which enlarges the MSX screen to PC resolution. The following scalers are implemented: simple (original), 2xSaI, Scale2x, hq2x
Scanlines now work in SDLHi (previously, they only worked in SDLGL)
Per-pixel alpha blending for console on SDLHi/SDLLo. This makes anti-aliased console fonts look better
Rendering fixes in Win32: Fixed slowdowns in fullscreen mode and fixed console flickering
Switched to Jarek Burczynski's YM2413 core (MSX-MUSIC)
Added high-pass IIR filter to mixer to avoid audio clipping
Added I/O device multiplexing: you can now safely insert an FM-PAC in an MSX turbo R, for example
Added screenshot feature
Added Ren-Sha Turbo (autofire) emulation: "set renshaturbo (speed)"
Added emulation of the MSX turbo R pause key
Added LED status of disk drives
Fixed harddisk image creation: automatically create or enlarge hd-image when the specified file doesn't exist or is too small
New console commands:
- after: execute command after a certain time
- alias/unalias: put long commands under a named alias
- incr and decr: increase or decrease integer settings
Added a 'boosted' MSX2 configuration: a fantasy machine with lots of internal hardware. More of these will be added in future releases
Added alternative build system ("alternative.mk"), which is more flexible and easier to maintain than the old system which uses GNU's auto* tools ("configure" and friends). The alternative system will replace the auto* system in the future, so please test it on your machine and report any problems
Added support for Intel's ICC 8.0 compiler (only in alternative.mk)
Added experimental support for Mac OS X (only in alternative.mk)
Dropped support for GCC 2.95 (please upgrade to GCC 3.x)
Added the ability to control openMSX from an external process (launcher, debugger) using an XML-based control protocol
New features for external control clients:
- renderer "none" which displays nothing
- "power" setting: enable or disable power to the MSX machine
- "restoredefault" command: restores a setting to the value specified in settings.xml
- "info" command: gets info such as list of pluggables, renderers, etc.
- "keymatrixup"/"keymatrixdown" commands: manipulate the keyboard matrix
Added a debugger interface, accessible through the "debug" command
Small improvements in debug device
Added "vdpcmdtrace" setting: enable or disable VDP command tracing

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