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TITLE
fMSX Amiga 0.5
AUTHOR
Hans Guijt (h.guijt@inter.nl.net)
Physical address:
Hans Guijt
Kagersingel 30
2172 XG Sassenheim
The Netherlands
Phone: (Holland)2522 - 17251
DESCRIPTION
fMSX Amiga emulates an MSX computer on an Amiga. In its current
state it will run cartridge based games (not included but
available through FTP and WWW) and allow you to play around
with MSX BASIC.
Action speaks louder than words, and most of the action can
be found in games, so I'll just list some of the available
software titles:
Loderunner Raid on Bungeling Bay Zaxxon
Bosconian (1) Falcon (2) Eggerland Mystery
Grog's revenge Guardic Knightlore
Knightmare Oil's Well Payload
QBert Tank Battalion Thexder (3)
Twinbee Zanac Digdug
(1) With speech!
(2) You read that right, and it is the original version.
(3) And it runs faster than the Amiga version - the mind boggles.
Of course fMSX Amiga is fully multitasking, runs in an intuition
screen, and has a font-sensitive user interface.
NEW FEATURES
Speed! fMSX Amiga now has two ways of redrawing the screen,
OS-friendly and highspeed.
The OS-friendly mode, which was also available in the previous
version, should work with everything from OCS to graphics cards.
This mode is slightly faster than before.
Highspeed mode takes over the screen, and uses the coprocessors
for updating the screen, resulting in a massive speed boost.
In this mode multitasking is still left enabled, but the copper,
blitter, and screen are constantly in use by the emulation.
This mode is obviously not compatible with graphics cards.
It is at all times possible to toggle between the two modes with
a simple keypress.
Other features include greatly enhanced sound, support for joysticks
with two buttons, and lots of bugfixes.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Required are:
- Amiga OS 3.0
- 68020 processor
- 400 kilobytes chip ram
- 700 kilobytes other ram
Recommended:
- 68030 processor, at least 25MHz
- Those 700 kilobytes of 'other' ram had better be fast ram!
Note that fMSX Amiga does *not* require the AGA chipset. In fact,
it should run on any chipset upto and including graphics cards,
although this has not been tested.
AVAILABILITY
fMSX Amiga 0.5 is available from any aminet site, such as:
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/misc/emu/fmsx_0.5.lha (97264)
PRICE
fMSX Amiga 0.5 can be yours for... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
DISTRIBUTABILITY
fMSX Amiga 0.5 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.