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- Short: MSX emulator (v1.4), req. 68020/OS2.0
- Author: h.guijt@inter.nl.net
- Uploader: h.guijt@inter.nl.net
- Type: misc/emu
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- fMSX Amiga is an Amiga port of fMSX UNIX. It emulates the MSX computer
- system. The emulation requires an 68020 and the v36 OS (or better). Fastram
- is not required but essential for good performance.
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- 'MSX' is an 8-bit computer system with surprisingly good graphics and sound
- capabilities. How does graphic resolutions of up to 512 * 424, up to 256
- colors on screen, and 9 channel music sound?
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- To demonstrate, several MSX pictures (taken from fMSX while running) have
- been uploaded to aminet (pix/illu/msx_emu.lha).
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- MSX1 emulation is slightly slower than a real MSX on my a4000/30. MSX2
- emulation is somewhat harder and runs a bit slower. Speed is expected to
- increase in further versions.
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- In this version many new features were implemented, making fMSX a viable
- MSX2 emulator. Most importantly, many VDP (the MSX blitter) commands were
- rewritten in 680x0 assembler and line interrupts were added. Many MSX2 games
- that used to crash work now.
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- Soundwise, fMSX can now emulate both the PSG and SCC sound chips (for a
- total of 9 channels of sound!) through the AHI system by Martin Blom. AHI is
- available from Aminet.
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- The user interface was improved as well. A new window for setting pathes to
- system resources was added, as was an ARexx port.
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- fMSX can now utilize external MSX fonts, and has full Kanji support.
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- Finally, a great many bugs were solved.
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- Many games for MSX are available through FTP or WWW. Sitenames can be found
- in the documentation.
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