BlueMSX v1.7.0

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on Sep 20th, 2004

BlueMSX, one of the better MSX emulators out there, has been updated today! Here is what's new:
  • By implementation of the M1 additionnal waiting states, optimisation of the VDP emulation and retuning of the Z80, VDP and MSX-AUDIO timings, the emulator comes indeed with more accuracy, stability and performance. Just take a look at the scope part of the Unknown Reality demo ! It works now 100% correctly and the updates to support it does not require extra CPU resource.
  • Support for patched disk rom is now replaced in all general and special machines by support of the Panasonic TC8566AF floppy drive controller. It has namely as result that you can now appreciate the Fony Demo Disk 2 ! In the future, other fdc's will also be supported.
  • Added Dir as Dsk feature
  • Added remembering of the position of the main dialogs on the screen
  • Added tools to create new themes for the emulator layout with customisable skins
  • Added real interlace mode (to complement the de-interlaced mode)
  • Improved automatic detection of rom mapper type for roms of 8Kb size
  • Improved colors for screen 8 and for MSX2+ screens
  • Improved dropdown menu for selecting the rom mapper type
  • Improved Moonsound support - thanks to Wouter Vermaelen and the openMSX dev team (these fixes will also be available in the next openMSX release)
  • Simplified menu for SCC/SCC+ (only 2 options in place of 5)
  • Fixed bugs in MSX-AUDIO and Moonsound emulation
  • Fixed bugs in the MSX2+ horizontal scroll support
  • Fixed different bugs in the VDP emulation
  • Fixed bug in the Super Pierrot mapper (ascii16nf)
  • Fixed bugs in the refreshing of menus
  • Fixed bug when creating blank dsk/cas image via file name requester
  • Fixed bug in the cassette position dialog (files weren't showed properly when custom files checkbox was deselected)
  • Fixed bug in the open file dialog (confusion between slot 1 and slot 2)
  • Fixed bug in the screen capture feature when using zip file with folder structure
You can get this from our MSX Emulators for Windows/DOS section.