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- From: hguijt@solair1.inter.NL.net (Hans Guijt)
- Subject: fMSX Amiga v0.8 released
- Message-ID: <DoA0o4.7Bp@solair1.inter.NL.net>
- Organization: NLnet
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- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 21:21:39 GMT
-
- TITLE
-
- fMSX Amiga 0.8
-
- AUTHOR
-
- Hans Guijt (h.guijt@inter.nl.net)
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- fMSX Amiga emulates an MSX computer on an Amiga. Features include:
-
- - Full emulation of the MSX1 system.
- - Partial emulation of the MSX2 system (to be expanded in the future).
- - Support for reading/writing MSX disks.
- - Support for the SCC sound system.
- - Support for MSX memory sizes of up to 4Mb.
-
- (for those not in the know: MSX is an 8-bit computer system, similar
- to the C64)
-
- Software is not included with the package, but many packages (mostly
- games) can be found on FTP sites:
-
- ftp.saitama-u.ac.jp /pub/msx/
- altair.komkon.com /pub/MSX/
- ftp.funet.fi /pub/msx/
- riaph.irkutsk.su /pub/
-
- Hundreds of games are available from these sites, and some form a
- worthy addition to the Amiga software collection.
-
- Of course fMSX Amiga is fully multitasking, runs in an intuition
- screen, and has a font-sensitive user interface.
-
- NEW FEATURES
-
- v0.8 at last supports two joysticks!
-
- MSX2 features were expanded. VDP emulation is complete now, and screen
- 5 features sprites (admittedly in the wrong color but enough to make
- it useful).
-
- Two more megarom mapper options are now available, and the others have
- been improved.
-
- Many small improvements were made to the user interface, mostly on
- request by users.
-
- v0.8 is quite a bit faster than v0.7, and several bugs were removed.
- The most notable of these is the 'Konami-corrupted-graphics' bug.
-
- SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
-
- Required are:
-
- - Amiga OS 2.0
- - 68020 processor
- - 400 kilobytes chip ram
- - 900 kilobytes other ram
-
- Recommended:
-
- - 68030 processor, at least 25MHz
- - Those 900 kilobytes of 'other' ram had better be fast ram!
-
- Note that fMSX Amiga does *not* require the AGA chipset. In fact
- it runs on any chipset upto and including graphics cards!
-
- AVAILABILITY
-
- fMSX Amiga 0.8 is available from any aminet site, such as:
-
- ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/misc/emu/fmsx_0.8.lha
-
- PRICE
-
- It's free.
-
- DISTRIBUTABILITY
-
- fMSX Amiga 0.8 is publically supported freeware. If you are
- interested in the source, and you're not afraid of function
- pointers and huge amounts of assembly intermixed with C, you
- can request it from me.
-
- If someone wants to do a special version (and I can think of
- several possibilities, such as a version that uses the MMU
- for optimized Z80 emulation, or a version that has been optimized
- for the CyberGfx system), contact me.
-
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