Note: I've posted the same info at openMSX forum, but I haven't seen much activity there, so I'll report also here. I've no user at Sourceforge, so I cannot use the regular bugreporting tools. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Using openmsx 0.6.3 for Windows I cannot load WAV files. I have tried both using Catapult and also from command line, using the command -cassetteplayer FILE.WAV. It crashes indicating "not a valid CAS file". Evidently, it is not a CAS but a WAV and therefore it cannot work.

If I try to load the WAV file from the openmsx console, using CASSETTEPLAYER [INSERT] FILE.WAV it also indicates "not a valid CAS file".

Maybe I'm not doing it ok, but apparently WAVs cannot be loaded. At least, not in the Windows version

Just for your information, all the WAV files were produced with WAVER, that used to work fine with older versions of openmsx.

Apparently, everything works fine in openmsx 0.6.2/Windows. Therefore, the problem is located in the newest version, 0.6.3. AFAIK, it tries to analyze the WAV file as a CAS file and of course, the format is not valid. I guess that the solution should be easy, but again, I haven't messed with the sources

Funny how bug reports for the same issue always come together, this morning BiFiMSX reported the same thing. It's already fixed in SVN.

It was a windows specific bug: for some reason the SDL_LoadWav() function in newer versions of the SDL library opens the file in read-write mode. But that triggers a sharing violation in windows if that same file was already open (not a problem in unix). See here for more details: http://openmsx.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openmsx/openmsx/trunk/ChangeLog?r1=7536&r2=7537

another emulation "problem" is that the basic line

10 VDP(0)=VDP(0) XOR 1: GOTO 10

on a real msx2 gives a nice wave effect on the display
nothing on emulators...

Actually not very important as problem, but for an emulator that aims to perfection...


here the source of the info
http://www.msx.org/forumtopic3198p30.html

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another emulation "problem" is that the basic line 10 VDP(0)=VDP(0) XOR 1: GOTO 10 on a real msx2 gives a nice wave effect on the display

Not on my LCD screen... So I guess it's a problem of the CRT, and that would make this effect fall into the category of emulating the monitor not emulating the MSX

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Note: I've posted the same info at openMSX forum, but I haven't seen much activity there, so I'll report also here. I've no user at Sourceforge, so I cannot use the regular bugreporting tools. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Just FYI: it's very easy to create an account on SF.net, and it's free. It's even easier to just join our IRC channel, which is very active. Also, we did notice your post, but it was done only yesterday, hours before you posted on MRC. We didn't really have a chance to find it

You are right, the forum is not very active, but it is regularly checked, though. Maybe not daily, but close to it. As I said: the most direct contact is IRC, then our mailinglist and/or bug tracker.

Anyway, thank you very much for reporting the bug and I'm glad it has been fixed already. Thanks to BiFi for helping out a bit here, testing some stuff.