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(234 KB,) 13-Mar-2000 Official Web: Well, you're watching at it RIGHT now :) | OOOOO-OOO·· | Maybe this is not the best existing emulator, but I'm including it
here because I've made it, and if I don't speak well about it, nobody
will do it neither :) It emulates the MSX1, the MSX2, the MSX2+ and
the MSX Turbo-R (the 2 latter ones partially!!). I think it's also the
first released spanish MSX emulator. SD-Snatcher is 100% playable. OK then, let's start with the technical data: if you've got a GUS or a minimally 100% compatible Sound Blaster you'll be able to hear some sound, like the PSG and the SCC chip of the KONAMI MegaROM's (the SCC generates only square waves in SB mode). It has also support for the Adlib soundcard (or SB in FM-Mode). It also has VESA 2.0 support. (joystick support has gone because lack of time changing the Allegro 3.12 routines). The emulator understands the typical 16/32 KB ROM format as well as all KONAMI MSX-1 MegaROM's, ASCII 8KB, ASCII 16KB and Original FM-Pac... It's got support for .DSK files (images of REAL MSX diskettes), and now has a little crappy mini-disk browser. It also emulates the memory mapper with up to 1024 KB. There is support for 256 KB Mega-RAM in slot 1. It's fully written in C with DJGPP, but in the future I could add some assembler routines. If you want more information read the docs included with the emulator. Author: Isaac Santaolalla (Me :). Send me a mail to the next address if you have comments about the emulator (or about whatever): is05562@salleURL.edu (ICQ Number: 99183199) |
31-Mar-2000 Official Web: BrMSX Official Site | OOOOO-OOOO· | This emulator IS the definitive MSX emulator, because it's the fastest
and smoothest one of all MSX emulators. Besides of that, it's the one
which can handle 100% OK the biggest amount of games. It's fully
written in 32 bit assembler. It's Z80 emulation is very optimized and
it's capable of reading various intructions "at the same time". It
also has sound for Sound Blaster and VESA 2.0 support. It emulates the
MSX1, the MSX2 and the MSX2+.
It has got disk support via DSK files (Port based and patch based).
You can also connect 2 PC's and you'll be able to play 2 players via
serial-cable remotely. There is also limited SCC support and PCM
support (1 bit and 4 bits). Cassete images are supported via .CAS
files. Its author might think adding MSX TURBO-R support in the
future. Author: Ricardo Bittencourt: ricardo@lsi.usp.br |
5-Sep-1997 Official Web: fMSX-DOS Official Site | OOOOO-OOO·· | This is the almost-PERFECT emulator for the MSX1/MSX2/MSX2+ systems
(the last one partialy), it can emulate the SCC sound chip (digitally)
and the FM-PAC extentions, it can handle real MSX disks and disk images
also. It also understands ROM images in 6 different formats. Good speed
(486 Dx2 66 at least, so it's good). Compiled with DJGPP. It has support
for all common sound cards (ADLIB, SB, SB16, SB AWE 32, GUS)... There
are some other neat features I don't remember now... Author: Marcel de Kogel: m.dekogel@student.utwente.nl |
Official Web: CJS MSX2 Emulator Official Site OOOOO-OOO··
| This is an emulator for the MSX1 and MSX2 systems. It doesn't support
FM-PAC but SCC only. SCC emulation is FM based so the quality is not
very good. It doesn't support ROM images directly, but it's got a
small utility to split the ROMS in 8 KB chunks and load them this way.
This method isn't very effective though. Totally written in ASM so
it's very fast and smooth. The sound (PSG and SCC) is FM based so
it's not realistic at all. It can handle MSX formatted disks AND
DOS-disks also. There are a few mini-utilities included... | Authors: Compujunks |
8-Mar-2000 Official Web: R80 Official Web | OOOOO-OOOOO |
This is NOT an MSX emulator, but a Spectrum one (the eternal enemy :)),
and so, it shouldn't appear here, but its author and me MUST HELP
ourselves... So, as he put a link on his page, I should put a link to
his emulator in my page also (Hola Raúl :) This emulator is very young, but it's the best WIHTOUT ANY DOUBT compared with the large amount of crappy spectrum emulators around. It never hurts trying to see how it works... It's got Adlib, GUS and Sound Blaster sound. Author: Raúl Gómez: raulgomez@retemail.es |
| MSX1 | ||
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MSX1 BIOS, the one of my Toshiba HX-20. | ||
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Japanese MSX1 BIOS (thanks to KSH for the dump). | ||
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Korean MSX1 BIOS (thanks to KSH for the dumps). | ||
| MSX2 | ||
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MSX2 BIOS (I think that they're the ones which come with fMSX). | ||
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Japanese MSX2 BIOS (thanks to KSH for the dumps). | ||
| MSX2+ | ||
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MSX2+ BIOS (I think that these are the ones which come with fMSX as
well as some other that I've found here and there...). | ||
| MSX Turbo-R | ||
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MSX Turbo-R BIOS (Compilation made by myself. Some of them are the ones
which come with RuMSX. I think that MSXDOS2.ROM should also appear here
but MSKISS is still NOT able to map it...). | ||
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DISK BIOS which comes with RuMSX... | |
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DISK BIOS which comes with fMSX (I think)... | |
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Brazilian DISK BIOS from Sharp. Be careful with this one, because even
booting the emulator with the CONTROL key pressed, no memory is freed
when inside the MSX!
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Special DISK BIOS to use with BrMSX. BE CAREFUL BECAUSE THIS ONE IS
PORT BASED AND DOES NOT WORK WITH MSKISS, fMSX, RuMSX...! |
| .DSK --> Real Disk | ||
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This little program is useful to transfer at low-level, (sector by
sector), a .DSK file (737280 or 368640 bytes) into a physical disk.
This program comes with MANY Linux distributions, and it's REALLY old,
but this is probably the reason why this is the definitive tool. Its
usage is very easy: RAWRITE DISK.DSK A: With this command line, we are transferring the DISK.DSK file into A: drive in about 2 minutes. If the disk drive you're trying to write to is another one, you MUST act wisely then! (with B: or the letter you need). Anyway, the physical disk you're trying to write into, MUST BE ALREADY FORMATTED with 720 KB or 360 KB (depending on the size of the .DSK file you're trying to transfer!!). Luckily, DOS provides us with some really powerful tools (for example the mythical FORMAT.COM program) that we will use this way, depending on the kind of disk we're trying to format:
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| Bunch of files --> .DSK File | ||
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This program is useful to build .DSK files (of 737280 bytes long!!)
under DOS. (After that, and if you need to transfer this .DSK file into
a real MSX disk, then you can use RAWRITE, like I explain above.)
This program (DSKTOOL) has been done (OF COURSE!! :) by Ricardo
Bittencourt, and it's very easy to use. It's like using any other file
compressor under DOS, like RAR, ARJ, etc... With DSKTOOL you'll be able
to "insert" files that reside in your hard disk (.BIN, .BAS, .LDR,
etc...) into the created .DSK file... A typical command line would be:
DSKTOOL A DISK.DSK *.BIN *.BAS *.LDR This command line creates a .DSK file called DISK.DSK and after that we'll be introducing all *.BIN *.BAS *.LDR files which reside in the current directory "into" the .DSK file (if there is enough space, of course :). And that's it... There are no more things to do. Read the documents that come with this program for more info. | ||
| Real Disk --> .DSK File | ||
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The next thing is not a program, but a method to extract a .DSK file
from a real disk. Anyway it's got some kind of "limitation". This
"limitation" is that you have to do it under Linux. If you're already
under Linux, then insert the disk into the drive (the MSX disk you
want to extract), open a shell and type this:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=./disk.dsk bs=512 With this command you'll extract the disk.dsk file which is the exact copy of the real disk that you've just inserted into the disk drive. Maybe it's a bit painful having to use Linux to do this, but as far as I know, "RAWREAD" for DOS doesn't exist. | ||
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