Hello,
I want to install an MSX emulator on my laptop which runs DOS.
I got pretty far with fmsx v1.6 (the last free one), but I ran into a very annoying problem:
To change disks in fmsx you have to make one big .dsk file and then use <right control>+0-9 to switch, but my dear laptop does not have a right control key! Only a left one!
Even the front-end YAYA 1.2c doesn't seem to have easy disk switching capabilities.

Can anyone help me out?

(fMSX MS-DOS site)

Nevermind, I solved my own problem

Thanks to NO$MSX

It's not doing it too accurately (I can't see my statistics in Aleste 2) but it's really fast.

Also, hooray for my 100th post

So, what are the specs of that laptop?

(And why are you running DOS on it, for goodness sake?)

Why do you use MSX, manuel ^_^

Yep, if you install a small Linux distro you can run openMSX .

It's a Pentium 1 with MMX at 300 Mhz and 32 MB RAM.

I like Dos games, I don't want to carry a mouse around all the time, and the touch-pad sucks, that's why I don't put Windows on it.
I have ROOT Linux on it too, but openMSX would make it too slow.

(It could be possible though, I somehow managed to run an svga program without the x windows system.)

Vector Linux 3.2 standard should work, comes with a light window manager IceWm and works with a P1 166mmx, 32 MB and 400MB HD.
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/vectorlinux/docs/miscellaneous/version_table.html

IIRC Pentium (I) MMX never run faster than 233 MHz. It is most likely a Pentium II if it runs at 300 MHz.

About emulators, I'd suggest to use BrMSX that is more accurate and faster than fMSX 1.6. You can also try NO$MSX (there's a DOS version), but it isn't half as accurate. On the other hand, it has a very nice GUI.

openMSX wouldn't be too slow if you use conservative settings. Most importantly: try a scale_factor of 1, and it probably runs just fine. Remember that HP Jornada: it ran openMSX fine, while it has a 200MHz ARM processor, without MMX even!

@webmouse, thanks for the tip. It's certainly a lot more recent than Root Linux (on which development stopped in 2004 (the developer is now doing CRUX))

@pitpan, it's an expensive 8 year old laptop (3000 guilders). Everytime it boots it says Pentium, MMX, and 300MHz. Root Linux says it's i586 architecture everytime it boots (Pentium 2 is i686) and that there're 300 MHz available. And trying to install Arch Linux on it which is i686-only causes a crash.

I might try out brMSX, because I'm afraid nocash's accuracy might cause a game freeze.
Can you tell me how disk switching goes in the dos version of brmsx?

@manuel How can I switch to a scale factor of 1 from full screen in dos?

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openMSX wouldn't be too slow if you use conservative settings. Most importantly: try a scale_factor of 1, and it probably runs just fine. Remember that HP Jornada: it ran openMSX fine, while it has a 200MHz ARM processor, without MMX even!

I give credit to that