A brand new version of the opensource MSX emulator openMSX, version 0.6.1 was released today, along with Catapult, its GUI/launcher. The most important changes are:
- Ability to switch machines and extensions at run time.
- Harddisk images can be changed in the openMSX console or specified on the command line.
- IDE CD-ROM support: reads ISO images, no audio tracks yet.
- Major V9990 improvements.
- New OpenGL 2.0 based renderer "SDLGL-PP", with features: scale factor 4, TV scaler, 3D monitor effect and horizontal stretch (MSX aspect ratio).
- New video effects: noise, brightness/contrast, monochrome monitor.
- New debugger features: watchpoints (like breakpoints for I/O and memory), Uninitialized Memory Read detector and DI/HALT (hanging MSX) detector.
- Made console easier to use by having help and TAB completion for more commands, and a new "about" command to search for a command by keyword.
- Support differences between AY8910 and YM2149 PSG.
- Support for V9938 with only 16KB VRAM (SVI-738).
- Support for Ninja-tap.
For the complete list of changes, please read the release notes. You can download openMSX 0.6.1 here; source, Win32 and Mac OS X (PPC) packages are available. Packages for Debian and Gentoo are expected soon in their native distribution systems.
Relevant link: openMSX website
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