Release History

===============

This is an overview of the changes that were incorporated into past releases.

openMSX 21.0 (2025-09-26)

-------------------------

This release has many improvements on the new GUI introduced in openMSX 20.0

(especially the debugger) and several other smaller features. It also

introduces the "setups" concept, which enables you to define an MSX setup (e.g.

a Philips VG 8020 with an external disk drive and a joystick, data recorder and

printer connected). These can be created, loaded, and automatically started.

They can also be saved automatically when you exit.

Furthermore, flash chip emulation has become a lot more accurate, thanks to

Laurens Holst.

Special thanks to all the contributors of this release who are not in the core

team! Keep those pull requests coming!

Here's the list with all highlights and details:

MSX device support:

- allow to set the position of the tape in a tape image in the tape deck

- fixed Spectravideo SVI-707 boot to basic

- updated MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD bank registers to 9-bit (was also updated in the

  real hardware)

- added emulation of DalSoRi R2 (OPL4 cartridge), which has 4MB of sample RAM

  and a flash ROM

- fixed a very long standing issue in the OPL4 4-operator FM mode, introduced

  in 2008

- added emulation of the Yamanooto mapper (without HOME/DEL boot keys)

- added emulation of the Wonder Kid mapper

- fixed missing VDP I/O delay of T9769 on IN instructions

- fixed the border sizes on MSX1

- V9990:

  - fixed timing of the IEHM flag

  - fixed the timing of the LINE command

- V99x8:

  - minor fixes in the BD bit in S#2 and clipping at the top/bottom border for

    the LINE command

- AMD flash chip emulation:

  - changed AM29F040 to B variant and AM29F016 to D variant, these are the only

    chips that are actually available and these have extra features

  - correct CFI command address mask to 11 bits

  - fixed: auto select sector protect flag requires A6 to be low

  - fixed: S29GL064S returns 0xFFFF when accessing auto select through CFI

  - implemented ready/busy# pin

  - base status dataPolling on value written by CPU

  - mask fast program address to page size

  - check sector of buffer program data’s address: the PA (program address)

    must lie within the SA (sector address)

  - implemented erase and program timing

  - implemented error on bit raise during program

  - added support for erase and program suspend/resume

- fixed the (relative) PSG volume for the Hamaraja Night mapper and improved

  (?) it for all other mappers/devices that include a PSG and another sound

  device

- fixed the MegaFlashROM SCC+ to always allow SCC access in any Konami mode

- added new machines/extensions, thanks to:

  - Peter Hanraets: Sanyo MPC-1, Sanyo MPC-11

  - Jipe: French Philips VG 8235 and Philips NMS 8245

  - Jungsi: German Philips VG 8235/02

  - Others: Computer Mates Disk Interface, Spanish Philips NMS 8245

- updated machine/extension configurations of:

  - Sony HB-F1XDJ, Sony HB-F1XV, National CF-2000

New or improved emulator features:

- GUI:

  - throttle GUI messages to avoid hangups if too many are generated

  - added tape motor control to the Tape Deck window

  - show savestates and replays ordered by time (newest first) and display

    their date/time

  - improve individual channel settings window (table headers, layout)

  - add recent items for machine selector

  - the OSD icon (LEDs, etc.) window can now be resized to use multiple rows

  - you can now also reset the MSX after removing a cartridge/extension from

    the Cartridge Slot window

  - improve menu bar behaviour in full screen mode on Windows

  - fixed underscore not properly visible in console text

  - make items shown in status bar configurable

  - show the mapper type in the status bar (if applicable)

  - move items from the "Settings -> Misc" menu into the "Settings -> GUI" menu

  - do not show an info message about a screenshot when saving states to avoid

    confusion

  - fixed slowness in cheat finder

  - remember open/close status of chips in the audio channel viewer

  - when changing hard disk image, ask user to confirm the power cycle

  - allow to change view only mode with a new context menu on the reverse bar

  - make ellipsis usage in the menus consistent and according to guidelines

  - added MSX-MUSIC viewer window that shows all details of the chip live

  - better support for non-Western fonts: all glyphs in a font are now

    available to the user interface

  - allow to hide machines and extensions that are not working, to avoid

    cluttered lists

  - some minor improvements in the layout of the Media windows, including an

    eject button for the Tape Deck window

  - redesigned the sound chip settings window to a vertical layout

  - fixed screenshot remaining visible on GUI when savestate is deleted

  - added Grab Input setting to Settings -> Input

- Debugger (including its GUI):

  - highlight known symbols in memory hex view

  - added support for loading symbol files generated by WLA-DX and Z80ASM from

    Z88DK

  - added context menu with 'Show in Disassembly' entry to addresses in

    breakpoints window.

  - added tile data info in the tile-viewer as hover pop-up

  - fixed crash in debuggable editor when clicking in the datatype dropdown

    list in the data-preview pane

  - take sprite magnification into account for bounding box display in sprite

    viewer

  - allow to open multiple bitmap/tile/sprite and disassembly viewers

  - show the display page number in the bitmap viewer instead of a 0-1023 range

    Y-coordinate

  - added visualization of VDP block commands in the bitmap viewer

  - extend segment number debug view to larger than 8-bit, for now only used

    for KonamiUltimateCollection, Yamanooto and ASCII16-X mappers

  - added "debug breakpoint" subcommand for listing, creating, configuring and

    removing breakpoints and similarly "debug watchpoint" and "debug

    condition" subcommands

  - allow to enable and disable existing breakpoints/watchpoints/conditions,

    without internally removing/re-adding them

  - use the palette matching the used VDP in the palette viewers

  - fixed HOME/END keys in debuggable editors

  - don't take keyboard focus in debuggable editor (it stole the focus when

    starting up with one still open)

  - added the missing "copy code view" function: you can copy code from the

    disassembly view to the clipboard, like in the external debugger

  - added raster beam view also to the character viewer

  - added hover with sprite pattern, attribute and color-attribute addresses to

    the sprite viewer

  - added export function for all debuggable editors (to clipboard or file)

  - highlight changes in register/flag/debuggable editor/slot views - this was

    still missing compared to the separate debugger

  - improved keyboard navigation on the disassembly window

  - added breakpoint session management

  - added a context menu to the character viewer to copy pattern and color data

    to the clipboard

  - added a context menu to the sprite viewer to copy pattern data to the

    clipboard

  - fixed disassembly syntax of "DD CB" instructions: parentheses were missing

  - fixed a crash when doing a debug write to "tracked" RAM

  - added Link IX / IY preset options in debuggable editor

  - fixed crash when user selects page 3 of screen 8 in a specific way

  - added 'debug watchexpr' command

  - fixed slot info for superexpanded SVI-328

  - dramatically improved the speed of reading blocks from 'slotted memory'

- do not persist freq_lock setting to avoid experiments to "overclock" a

  machine to spill over to use on other machines

- do not automatically rewind a tape when resetting the MSX and only perform

  auto run at the start of the tape

- allow speed settings smaller than 1 (change to float value). Note: this

  breaks updates from openMSX to the Catapult speed slider and this will not be

  fixed (as we have stopped updating Catapult).

- added support for 512-pixel wide modes in the 'hq' and 'ScaleNx' scalers (was

  not supported before on the SDLGL-PP renderer)

- fixed pointer_hide_delay setting that got broken in 20.0

- fixed bug that using the GUI could interrupt the replay (introduced in 20.0)

- added support for TSX tape images

- added a basic game shuffler Tcl script

- fixed changing scale factor when openMSX is paused

- fixed incorrect resetting of the machine time when resetting the machine

- fixed several Space Manbow trainers

- several small improvements/workarounds for Japanese keyboards in POSITIONAL

  mode

- fixed key up detection in CHARACTER mode (when the keycode is not provided)

- enhanced the keyboard tracing, with the hope that it helps to fix keyboard

  issues in an upcoming release

- added a Tcl script that replaces sdcdb (SDCC debugger)

- when both a LaserDisc and a cassette tape are present, auto run the cassette

  tape. Use case: Mystery Disc

- added a programmable device that directly connects to Tcl scripts

- if a file is not found, show where openMSX was looking for it

- added setups concept: support on console, command line, GUI. Also obsoletes

  setting the default machine in the machine selector

- fixed "osd info -mousecoord" when main-window doesn't have focus (this is

  used in several OSD scripts)

- allow raw screenshots to be saved with "auto" size

- auto run cassettes: make use of the tape loading instruction given in the

  filename, if it can't be derived from the contents (WAV files typically)

- fixed POSITIONAL keyboard mapping for SVI machines

- added a new setting to enable stretch-to-fit on full screen mode:

  full_stretch

- removed 'hqlite' scaler, as it doesn't add any value over 'hq'

- removed 'fast' resampler, as the quality is very low and the better ones are

  fine in terms of speed on contemporary hardware

- removed OSD based raster beam viewer (use the bitmap/character viewer

  instead)

- removed OSD based FPS indicator (use the status bar instead)

- removed OSD info panel (use the status bar instead)

- removed OSD VU meters (use the audio channel viewer instead)

- removed deprecated -msxonly flag in the screenshot command

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- required GNU compiler is now at least g++-12

- required clang compiler is at least clang++-17

- required Visual Studio Compiler is at least 2022

- on macOS, at least Xcode 16.4 is required

- Android build is totally broken, and will require a lot of effort and help to

  get back up, which is not planned by us.

- Dingux support was removed

- 3rd party updates of SDL (2.30.7), Tcl (8.6.15), libPNG (1.6.44), FreeType

  (2.13.3), zlib (1.3.1), Dear ImGui (1.92.0)

- allow building against Tcl 9

- quite a large update of the manual (mostly to include the new GUI)

- added standalone xsa2dsk tool

openMSX 20.0 (2024-09-22)

-------------------------

This is a major release, in which we introduce the new Graphical User

Interface, replacing the OSD menu. A faster and more powerful debugger is now

included in openMSX itself. Configuration for MSX joystick/JoyMega has been

improved drastically using the new GUI.

As of now, a system with OpenGL 2 support is required to run openMSX.

The GUI

^^^^^^^

We already had two separate GUI applications:

- openMSX Catapult, a tool to control common functionality of openMSX, in a

  limited way.

- openMSX Debugger, a great and helpful tool, but never officially released and

  packaged.

Keeping the GUI separate from the emulation core seemed like a good idea at

first. Keeping the state of both applications in sync turned out to be a hard

problem, however. Functions that seemed easy, were in fact very hard to

implement in this structure.

In this release we integrated the GUI directly in openMSX itself. All

information is now guaranteed in sync and updated real-time (which would have

been very hard in the old structure).

As this is the first release with the new GUI, not everything will be perfect

straight away. Feedback or help to improve things further will be highly

appreciated. The Catapult and openMSX Debugger applications remain available

for the time being. We will (try to) keep them working, but they won't receive

any new development anymore - from us anyway. When keeping them working becomes

too much of a burden, we will abandon these applications altogether.

Joystick emulation

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Another big change is the joystick emulation. There are now fixed joystick and

JoyMega (MegaDrive controller) pluggables (2 for each), which can also be

configured via the GUI and also support keyboard inputs, so they also replace

the old keyjoystick devices. This gives optimal flexibility for configuring how

you want to control MSX controllers.

On top of that, it is now possible to plug and unplug host controllers at

run-time.

Rendering

^^^^^^^^^

Rendering has also undergone a big change. We removed the "SDL" renderer, as

the GUI requires an accelerated backend, for which we use OpenGL 2, which was

already required for the (already default and now only) SDLGL-PP renderer.

We also removed 1x scaling, so the minimum is now 2x. Video recording and

screenshots on the 320x240 resolution are still possible, though. All of this

allowed us to simplify the code a lot, making it easier to add new features and

maintain the code.

Other important changes

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

As for any custom key bindings you might have: we renamed some keys to match the SDL

library names instead of inventing our own. Old names are still recognized, but

be careful if you also run older openMSX versions, as openMSX will use the new

names and the old openMSX will not recognize them. Examples are: PRINT ->

PrintScreen, META -> GUI.

Special thanks to all the contributors of this release who are not in the core

team! Keep these pull requests coming!

Here's the list with all highlights and details:

MSX device support:

- OPL4: fixed detail in YMF262 register mirroring

- turboR PCM:

  - fixed sample frequency to 15700Hz (not 15750Hz as found in some

    documentation)

  - implement sample buffer (bit 0 on port 0xA5) to improve sound quality

- flash ROMs: added a lot of accuracy to its emulation

- WD2793 and TC8566AF FDC's: fixed several details

- Konami mapper: added missing mirroring

- improvements on I8254 mode 3 used in some RS-232C interfaces

- added support for the concept 16-bit NEO mappers, which may be used by

  someone in the future. If this doesn't happen, support will be dropped again

- added support for the ASCII16-X mapper which will be used by some upcoming

  games

- fixed mapper of Mitsubishi ML-TS2 modem software

- added support for Circuit Designer RD dongle (thanks Sandy Pleyte!)

- added new machines/extensions, thanks to:

  - Peter Hanraets and Arjen Zeilemaker: Hitachi MPF-310H

  - Peter Hanraets: Hitachi MB-H70

  - bsittler: USA version of Yamaha CX5M

  - Takamichi Suzukawa: National CF-SM003

  - Tristan Zondag: German Spectravideo SVI-738

  - Oliver Klink: French Canon V-20

  - Patrick: Yeno DPC-64

  - DamnedAngel: Hitachi MB-H21

  - Peter Hanraets, Takamichi Suzukawa, Arjen Zeilemaker and Benoit Delvaux:

    Sony HB-T600

  - Others: Philips VU-0040, General Paxon PCT-55, Sanyo MPC-64, OPL3 Cartridge

    with Moonsound compatible port mapping

New or improved emulator features:

- removed SDL renderer

- added new GUI:

  - main menu bar with these menu items:

    - Machine

      - Select MSX machine

      - Firmware switch

      - Pause emulator

      - Reset MSX

      - Power on/off

      - Test MSX hardware (much faster than in Catapult)

    - Media

      - Cartridge slots with ROM cartridges or extensions

      - Disk drives

      - Tape deck

      - Hard disk

      - CD-ROM

      - Laserdisc

    - Connectors

      - joystick ports, printer ports, MIDI ports, etc.

    - Save state

      - Load/Save state

      - Load/Save replay

      - Reverse/replay settings

    - Tools

      - Virtual keyboard

      - Copy/paste

      - Capture audio/video/screenshot

      - Disk Manipulator

      - Trainer

      - Cheat Finder

      - SCC viewer

      - Audio channel viewer

      - OSD Toys

    - Settings

      - Video

      - Sound

      - Speed

      - Input

        - Configure MSX joysticks

      - GUI

        - Configure GUI shortcuts

      - Misc

        - Configure OSD icons, show status bar, ...

    - Debugger

      - Toolbar

      - Disassembly view

      - CPU registers

      - CPU flags

      - Slots

      - Stack

      - Breakpoints

      - Symbol Manager

      - Watch expressions

      - Bitmap viewer

      - Tile viewer

      - Sprite viewer

      - VDP register viewer

      - Palette

      - Hex editor

    - Help

      - Links to manuals

      - About

  - Reverse bar

  - OSD icons

  - Status bar

  - Console

  - Messages

  - Drag and drop

  - Shortcuts

  - Separate pop-out windows

  - Windows can be docked on other windows or in a tab widget

  - 3 styles: Dark (default), Light, Classic

  - configurable font and font size. Default: DejaVu

- OSD menu:

  - removed in favour of new GUI

- only warn once for unsupported size in Konami mappers

- suppress warning messages during reversing

- fully configurable MSX controller mapping for joysticks (msxjoystick1/2

  pluggables) and JoyMega devices (joymega1/2 pluggables) - see above

- low level debugger (scripting):

  - added support for symbol management

- allow to set a breakpoint (or any Tcl callback) when the VDP dot clock

  direction is written "wrongly"

- added VGM recording for OPL3

- added minimal support for unplugging and replugging host controllers

- added support for RS232Net: connect MSX RS-232C interfaces to the local

  network

- removed several OSD scripts which have been replaced by the GUI, sometimes

  almost 1 to 1:

  - reverse bar

  - tile viewer

  - sprite viewer

  - palette editor

  - VDP register viewer

  - tabbed machine view

  - display_message

  - quit menu

  - OSD keyboard

  - load_icons

- removed support for savestates with .xml.gz extension

- do not save SRAM to file if unmodified

- added support to run openMSX fully in headless mode

- allow to specify the device name of IDE devices in their config XML file

- base the Boosted MSX2 EN on the Philips NMS 8245 instead of 8250

- fixed crash when multiple debug-devices were used at once

- fixed possible crash on specific combination of watchpoints and replay

- fixed possible crash on no longer supported savestates:

  - we try to keep old savestates working. Nevertheless occasionally we do

    remove stuff. Loading an old savestate which contains such stuff used to

    crash, now we give a clean error message.

- fixes for load_settings command

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- added support for loongarch

- required GNU compiler is now at least g++-11

- required clang compiler is at least clang++-16

- required Visual Studio Compiler is at least 2022

- on macOS, at least Xcode 15.4 is required

- Android build is totally broken, and will require a lot of effort and help to

  get back up, which is not planned by us.

- 3rd party updates of SDL (2.30.1), SDL2_ttf (2.22.0), GLEW (2.2.0)

- added patch to add aarch64 support to libtheora 3rdparty build

- fixed link error in libvorbis for Xcode 15 on macOS

- avoid pkg-config build error with Clang 15 on macOS

- quite a large update of the manual (mostly to include the new GUI)

openMSX 19.1 (2023-08-30)

-------------------------

This is a bug fix release which fixes the following serious issues:

- broken LaserDisc support (OGV file format wasn't recognized)

- (potential) crash when using two V9990 devices in one machine

- saving of callback settings like invalid_psg_directions_callback

As a bonus two other noteworthy changes were made:

- added Hitachi MPF-310H floppy disk drive + interface extension (thanks to

  Peter Hanraets and Arjen Zeilemaker)

- added proper mirroring of Konami mapper types in areas 0-3FFFH and

  C000H-FFFFH

openMSX 19.0 (2023-07-25)

-------------------------

More bug fixes and smaller improvements. Large improvements on the OSD menu and

the diskmanipulator.

Special thanks to all the contributors of this release who are not in the core

team! Keep these pull requests coming!

This release will be the last one that supports systems without OpenGL 2 or

higher.

Here's the list with all highlights and details:

MSX device support:

- SCC+: clear RAM when powering off/on

- WD2793: fixed very rare corner case when writing CRC bytes

- V9990:

  - fixed corner case in interlaced screen rendering

  - fixed Bx mode cursor drawing

- R800: fixed behaviour with double prefix, as it acts like double NOP unlike

  Z80

- Carnivore 2: updated initial (out-of-the-box) flash content, with bootmenu

  2.52

- fixed NinjaTap emulation (at the cost of the PSG pin 6/7 behaviour)

- fixed formatting on Philips VY-0010 disk drives

- implemented (more) I/O port mirroring for S-1985 and S-3527 based machines

  for PSG, VDP, PPI, RTC, printer)

- implemented some weird behaviour of the printer port (implemented unused bits

  specification and status showing on all ports for some machines)

- added mapper for RetroHard MultiCart 31 in 1 cartridges

- added mapper for Al Alamiah 30-in-1 cartridges, thanks to a.o. hashem and

  tsjakoe

- added new machines/extensions, thanks to:

  - Peter Hanraets: Sony HB-11 and Sony HB-F701xx

  - alwro07: Polish Spectravideo SVI-738

  - Daniel Padilla: Victor HC-90A (WIP)

  - Takamichi Suzukawa: Nikko PC-70100 (hidden MSX) and Sanyo MPC-10mkII

  - Others: Sunrise IDE with Nextor ROM, Swedish Spectravideo SVI-738, Yamaha

    SKW-01 Word Processor

New or improved emulator features:

- VDP: fixed assertion failure when cmdtiming=broken

- many improvements on machine and extension descriptions

- OSD menu:

  - show machine type and region info in list of machines

  - show current machine in main menu title (as most actions operate on it)

  - show machine and extension information/details whilst selecting them,

    including whether it will work when selected

  - allow user to add/remove IPS patches for ROMs

  - fixed location of selection bar (was too high)

  - scroll menu items that do not fit horizontally to be able to read them

  - for long paths, only show the last part (instead of clipping after the

    first part)

  - minor aesthetic tweaks

  - don't show add/remove dialog for extensions if none are present and show

    the amount inserted in the menu

  - always show menu on top

- disk manipulator (many thanks to Laurens Holst!)

  - fixed import command

  - fixed newline issue in dir command

  - fixed possibly illegal date/time stamps when importing

  - fixed crash when exporting/listing by proper detection of end-of-directory

  - many other/smaller robustness fixes

  - added FAT16 support for dir, chdir, mkdir, import, export, create and

    format

  - both DOS1 and DOS2 bootsectors can be generated

  - added support for Nextor partitions

  - added support for Nextor FAT12 formatting

  - skip hidden directories when exporting

  - improved filtering on unsupported file name characters

  - convert MSX file names to UTF-8 both when reading from and writing to the

    host file system

  - added partition command to partition an existing disk

  - added support for Beer IDE 1.9 partitions

- cassetteplayer 'getpos' command now also works in recording mode

- fixed desyncs in replays when using mouse input

- make it possible for some devices to find out which ROM file they use

- make it possible to query the VDP type in Tcl

- fixed calculation of hash for e.g. hard disk images (unfortunately making it

  slower again)

- fixed SaI3xScaler

- fixed parsing of XML entities in e.g. replays, config files, etc. For example

  fixes replays that include a load command like BLOAD"CAS:",R

- fixed crash when video system cannot be initialized, show an error instead

- fixed crash when using the Dooly mapper with a too small ROM image

- added MIDI input support to ALSA (thanks to Cacodemon345!)

- callback procs can now be persistenty changed to a custom implementation

  (ivalid PSG direcitons, invalid PPI mode, di-halt, generic messages)

- added a way to cancel the type command (with -cancel option)

- added warnings on reads/writes to writeonly/readly registers (thanks to Pedro

  de Medeiros)

- fixed crash when toggling the 'VR' bit in the VDP

- fixed crash when making screenshot with SDL renderer

- added debuggables for VDP register and palette latch status (thanks to Pedro

  de Medeiros)

- expose VRAM write access status to Tcl (thanks to Pedro de Medeiros)

- added YM2151 recording to VGM recorder (thanks to sneep)

- fixed crash when required OpenGL version was not found

- added small delay to fix automatic typing of loading instruction for games

  like Elite

- fixed ar_fr keyboard mapping (ignoring right-to-left characters)

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- fixed compilation on some platforms (missing ctime include)

- required GNU compiler is now at least g++-10. Android build is totally

  broken, as its libc++ is missing a lot of things. Will probably be better

  with NDK 26.

- update build process for macOS, automatically sign code when Apple Developers

  ID is available

- 3rd party updates of SDL (2.26.4), Tcl (8.6.13) and libpng (1.6.39)

- added patch to add aarch64 support to libtheora 3rdparty build

openMSX 18.0 (2022-06-12)

-------------------------

Again a release with mostly bug fixes and smaller improvements. And of course a

little more blasphemy out there adding support for Sega SG-1000.

Special thanks to all the contributors of this release who are not in the core

team! Keep these pull requests coming!

Here's the list with all highlights and details:

MSX device support:

- V99x8:

  - fixed ugly looking top line when displaying interlacing

  - fixed rounding for 'blue' in YJK modes

  - fixed bug in VRAM access timing, in cases where VDP and CPU are

    simultaneously accessing VRAM, like in Maze of Galious Enhanced. This was

    mostly noticable when replaying a recorded replay.

- V9990:

  - fixed possible crash when switching display modes (seen in SymbOS)

  - fixed BMXL and BMLX commands in P1 in 4bpp modes

- R800: fixed flag behavior of block I/O instructions (only affect Z and N)

- OPL4:

  - fixed aliasing in high pitched notes introduced in 0.15.0

  - fixed missing reset of sample position when wave is changed during release

- Apply Z80 CMOS behaviours to all MSX-ENGINE machines (not only turboR)

- Implemented the known differences between OPM (YM2151, as used in Yamaha

  SFG-01) and OPP (YM2164, as used in Yamaha SFG-05)

- Fixed YM2151/YM2164 timer

- YM2413/OPLL (MSX-Music):

  - incorporated bug fixes in NukeYKT OPLL core from the upstream authors

  - emulate effects of too fast access to YM2413/OPLL when using the (default)

    NukeYKT core. Note: this only works when the speed setting is set to 100%.

- Fixed Sony HBI-55 emulation

- Fixed swapped red/blue colors in laserdisc with SDLGL-PP

- Added disk-changed bit in Sony FDC interface, required for HB-F500P for

  instance

- Added support for Talent TDC-600 external floppy disk drive

- Added support for Canon FDC connectionstyle

- More accurate TC8566AF emulation (turboR FDC)

- Implemented proper emulation of Konami EC-701, thanks to Albert Beevendorp

  and Takamichi Suzukawa

- Added initial support for Sega SG-1000 (and some preparations for SC-3000)

- Carnivore 2:

  - updated initial (out-of-the-box) flash content, with bootmenu 2.50

  - added 2nd PSG feature with configurable I/O ports (new in 2.50 firmware)

  - added user-defined ID and control port I/O (new in 2.50 firmware)

  - report firmware as version 2.50

  - fixed bug that prevented multiple Carnivore 2 cartridges inserted in a

    single machine

- Added 2nd PSG on I/O ports 0x10-0x12 for Boosted configs and also added an

  artificial 2nd PSG extension, for convenience, as alternative to using a

  MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD or Carnivore 2 cartridge for that feature.

- Use cleaned up disk ROMs in several configurations (without registers)

- Fixed several configs that had wrongly a memory mapper: Sony HB-F1XD,

  HB-F1XDmk2, Panasonic FS-A1mk2

- added new machines/extensions, thanks to:

  - Peter Hanraets: Philips VG 8235/39, Panasonic CF-2700 (UK), Casio MX-15,

    Mitsubishi ML-G30 model 1, Mitsubishi ML-G30 model 2, Sanyo MPC-25FS,

    Mitsubishi ML-8000, Daewoo DPC-200 (French), Sony HB-F1XDmk2, Sony HBD-20W,

    Panasonic FS-PW1

  - sergarbes: Sony HB-F700S

  - Meits/Peter Hanraets: Philips VG 8235/20, several VG 8235 improvements.

  - Ricardo Jurcyk Pinheiro: Yamaha AX200

  - NYYRIKKI: Swedish/Finnish localized Spectravideo machines

  - friguron: Spanish Philips NMS 8250

  - Others: Canon V-30F

New or improved emulator features:

- Huge clean ups and fixes of the unicodemaps (using Rebecca Bettencourt's

  mapping tables, which were released as part of Unicode) and other keyboard

  fixes/improvements (e.g. a French/Arabic unicodemap)

- Added MSX character to unicode (and vice versa) mapping, which is used in the

  get_screen script

- Fixed several bugs in save_msx_screen script (as seen in Yupipati)

- Fixed bug in DirAsDSK which could lead to corruption

- Fixed DirAsDSK on MSX systems that require a disk-change signal to notice

  changes

- OSD menu:

  - fixed tape deck OSD menu when there are spaces in the path

  - added menu option to change host to MSX joystick mapping

- Added script that can show where the raster beam is on the screen

- Added script that shows sprite locations and information on the OSD

- Also display hours in the reverse bar

- Fixed crash when using "record_channels cassetteplayer" with resampler=blip

- Don't remove once-breakpoints if condition fails

- Added internal events on breakpoint/watchpoint/condition/probe add/remove

  (unused so far, but may help debugger development)

- Allow multiple errors/warnings to be displayed on OSD

- Large update of the ROM database

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- C++ code is based on C++20 and thus requires a compiler supporting it, e.g.

  g++ 9 or later (10 is recommended and will be necessary for the next release)

  or Visual Studio 2022 or later

- Updated catch2 to 2.13.7

- 3rd party updates of SDL (2.0.20), FreeType (2.11.1), Tcl (8.6.12), libogg

  (1.3.5) and libvorbis (1.3.7)

- Fixed FreeBSD run time crash at startup

openMSX 17.0 (2021-05-18)

-------------------------

A release with mostly bug fixes and smaller improvements. Most notable may be

the usability improvements of the OSD menu.

Special thanks to all the contributors of this release who are not in the core

team! Keep these pull requests coming!

Here's the list with all highlights and details:

MSX device support:

- V99x8:

  - fixed timing of VDP settings getting applied. This fixes the screensplit in

    Psycho World, Hydefos, Space Manbow and the Woei demo, and probably more.

    Many thanks to Grauw for figuring out the real problem.

  - fixed that sprites are not disabled instantly, but on the next line

- Carnivore 2:

  - updated initial (out-of-the-box) flash content, with bootmenu 2.40

  - added support for firmware version readout (now hardcoded on 2.30)

  - added support for SLM_cfg register

  - added reading from SCC, which also works on real hardware

- V9990: fix location of bitmap cursor

- fixed OPL4 12-bit sample decoding

- fixed stereo settings of Daewoo CPC-400(S)

- fixed loading/saving of flash content for ReproCartridgeV1/V2 mappers

- fixed bugs in RTC (thanks to KdL and HRA!) regarding leap-year and

  days-in-the-month

- added support for proper mapper registers readout on S1985 systems without

  mapper and with an external mapper that is larger than 512kB

- added support for Zemina 25-in-1 mapper (thanks to BiFi and Hashem)

- added new machines, thanks to:

  - Peter Hanraets: Victor HC-7, (partial) Hitachi MB-H2, Sanyo PHC-23J, Sanyo

    PHC-23 (old), Sanyo PHC-SPC, Sanyo PHC-30N, Sanyo PHC-33 (without built in

    tape drive features), Sanyo PHC-77, Sony HB-75, Sony HB-F700F, Sony

    HB-F500 (v1 and v2), AVT DPC-200, Mitsubishi ML-G10, Hitachi MB-H50

    (without LEDs), Yamaha SX-100, Philips NMS 8250/19

  - Arjen Zeilemaker and others: Toshiba HX-33 and HX-34 (except for the COPY

    button and special hardware for that)

  - Danilo Angel: Sanyo MPC-3

  - others: Sony HB-75D, Sanyo PHC-28P

- added new extensions: Popolon Sound Cartridge (with configurable size)

New or improved emulator features:

- by default also map the D-pad of a controller to the MSX joystick directions

- fixed artifacts on 3x scaling with 512 wide MSX modes on SDLGL-PP

- optimized file pool more, especially when alternative ROMs are to be found

- more accurate resampling, without rounding errors

- fixed possible crash when Tcl callbacks switch the active machine, e.g. using

  step_back in watchpoints

- fixed autorun of tapes/laserdiscs interrupting the replay

- fixed OMR replays with auto-run type command

- faster switching to/from fullscreen, without changing the videosource

- fixed laserdiscplayer eject command still showing the file inserted

- make number of columns for showdebuggable configurable

- fixed broken color_matrix setting (a.k.a. monitor_type)

- fixed drawing of OSD progress info (e.g. while calculating hashes)

- improved performance of calculating hashes of HDD images, especially when

  they're on a network drive

- on Windows, make openmsx.exe a GUI application to avoid the separate extra

  text output window

- added support for automatic internal conversion of SVI CAS files to WAV

- added support for autoruncassettes for SVI CAS files

- fixed autoruncassettes on some models like Yamaha AX150

- OSD menu:

  - menu button is now easy to disable with new osd_menu_button setting

  - removed useless frameskip controls

  - added full speed when loading control

  - tweaked special options in lists like [eject]

  - fixed navigating to file pools for disks

  - show media slot content the same way for all media

  - represent all media slots as slots, more similar to real hardware. You can

    now put both ROM cartridges and extensions in cartridge slots via the same

    menu

  - show I/O only extensions as such, as they will not take a physical slot in

    openMSX

  - allow searching also on _ and - characters in lists

  - show display names of what is in a media slot

  - show ROM info of just inserted ROM, not of the most likely running ROM

  - show also MSX slot number in list of cartridge slots

  - fixed handling of multiple identical extensions

  - display a message if a cartridge is removed

  - display the slot behind extensions in the Extension -> Remove menu

  - added Monitor type setting to the Video Settings menu

  - added OSD icon set setting to the Misc Settings menu

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- better support for macOS < 10.13, using HFS+J DMG format

- target macOS 10.13

- build support for 64-bit RISC-V

- SDLGL-PP renderer requirements are now relaxed to only OpenGL 2.1 again (was

  3.3 in openMSX 16.0)

- fixed building without SDL joystick support

- C++ code is based on C++17 and thus requires a compiler supporting it, e.g.

  g++ 8 or later or Visual Studio 2019 or later

- 3rd party updates of Tcl (8.6.10) and libpng (1.6.37)

openMSX 16.0 (2020-08-25)

-------------------------

A major release in which we finally migrated to SDL2 and Tcl 8.6. And we moved

to a simpler versioning scheme, stripping off that 0. prefix now :) Other than

that, there are loads and loads of improvements. Some often requested ones are

copy/paste functionality and drag and drop support. But we also added a super

accurate YM2413 emulation (originally written by NukeYKT), fixed MIDI-in/out

support on Windows, a new keyboard mode, much improved OSD menu, etc. See below

for the details.

Special thanks to all the contributors of this release who are not in the core

team! Keep these pull requests coming!

Here's the list with all highlights and details:

MSX device support:

- V9990:

  - added EOR feature in V9990 bitmap cursor rendering

  - fixed crash in overscan modes with deflicker filter

  - fixed YJK/YUV rendering (was broken 8 years ago...)

  - fixed BMLX command

  - fixed drawing of second cursor (in some cases)

  - added synchronization for the CE IRQ

  - fixed sprite rendering algorithm on P modes

  - fixed background rendering in P2

  - fixed crash when using V9990 B4 mode with SDL renderer and scale_factor 3

- V99x8:

  - fixed that set adjust has no influence on maximum horizontal interrupt line

  - fixed right border on V9958 horizontal scroll

  - implemented "Cadari" bit

  - fixed sprite collision detection with color 0 sprites

  - fixed behaviour of TP bit in sprite mode 1

- PSG:

  - fixed that PSG registers of turboR do not mirror

  - fixed behaviour of wrong PSG port configuration (input ports output 0xFF)

  - it is now possible to specify whether a machine ignores PSG port

    directions; this helps to only show the warning on machines that may

    actually get damaged by these PSG bits

  - fixed noise level 0 ("sound6,0")

- fixed behaviour details of ADPCM of MSX-AUDIO

- fixed VDP I/O wait cycles of T9769: only apply to Z80

- fixed initial RAM pattern of ColecoVision to 0x00, which fixes The Heist

- fixed register mirroring of Yamaha SFG modules

- improved loading bad quality WAV cassette images using cubic interpolation

- added very accurate (but also slower) NukeYKT YM2413 core (now also the

  default)

- added emulation of 256kB hangul font ROM of the Daewoo CPC-400S

- added emulation of mappers Repro Cartridge mapper (v1 and v2) and Matra

  Compilation (e.g. Konami Compilation 1 and 2)

- fixed keyboard type of CIEL Expert Turbo

- fixed RAM size of Daewoo DPC-180

- added mapper type for RBSC Flash cartridges with KonamiSCC mapper

- added new machines: Yamaha AX500 (thanks Hashem Khalifa), Toshiba HX-20E

  (thanks Isaac Santaolalla), Yamaha YIS-503, YIS-503II, CX5F, YIS-604/128,

  Sony HB-G900D (thanks Peter Hanraets), Yamaha AX150 (thanks Pedro Gimeno),

  Olympia PHC-2 (thanks Patrick)

- added new extensions: Yamaha FD-03 (thanks Arjen) and FD-05 disk drive,

  Toshiba HX-F101PE disk drive, ROM Hunter Mk2 (thanks BiFi, Takamichi), Sony

  HBI-J1 (thanks Sandy), JVC MSX MIDI (thanks gflores)

New or improved emulator features:

- F11 now toggles fullscreen mode on PC, to be consistent with other

  applications such as web browsers; mute is now under F12

- fixed crash in ColecoVision when e.g. ALT+SPACE was pressed

- fixed crash when ejecting tape during cassette loading

- fixed MIDI-in/out support on Windows

- fixed possible crashes when using reverse

- added drag and drop support of files on the openMSX window. Supports ROM

  files, disk images (and folders), cassette images, LaserDisc images,

  savestates, replays, text files, Tcl scripts.

- added copy/paste functionality: with CTRL+Win+V (Cmd+V on Mac) or the middle

  mouse button, the clipboard text will be pasted into the MSX and with

  CTRL+Win+C (Cmd+C on Mac), the current MSX text screen will be copied to the

  clipboard

- added paste functionality to the console (CTRL+V/Cmd+V on Mac)

- several other small console improvements:

  - for macOS: Home/End moves to top/end of history, Cmd+Left/Right moves

    cursor to start/end of the line

  - move cursor per word with Alt+Left/Right

  - clear console with Ctrl+L and Cmd+K on macOS

  - Alt+BackSpace: delete backwards up to the start of the word

  - Alt+D (Alt+Del on macOS): delete util the end of the word

- added new POSITIONAL keyboard mapping mode, which is a much improved version

  of the KEY mode. Use when CHARACTER mode isn't working properly for you

- added file extensions to OSD menu and command line (e.g.

  .fd1/.fd2/.fd?/.1/.2)

- OSD menu:

  - when browsing for a media (ROM, disk, etc.) the menu now starts with the

    currently selected item. Makes it much easier to set disk B of a game, for

    instance.

  - implemented quick search in lists with alphanumeric keys. Type the name you

    expect and the cursor will find items starting with the typed characters.

  - fixed filtering out symlinked configurations from the machine/extension

    lists

  - go to the top of a list with HOME or CTRL+LEFT. Go to the end by pressing

    UP after that, as the lists wrap around :)

  - now all cartridge slots and disk drives can be controlled from OSD

  - show on/off instead of true/false for boolean settings

  - added keyboard mapping mode setting to OSD menu

- added setting to control vsync. Default is now enabled

- added new settings 'fastforward' and 'fastforwardspeed' to offer a way to go

  fast for a while (e.g. with the F9 button, which has now its binding changed

  to this) without going insanely fast.

- With vsync enabled the maxframeskip will not have to be tweaked anymore to go

  faster than the host monitor frame rate. Fast forward just works as you would

  expect it

- added new OSD icon set, which positions icons as far to the bottom as

  possible (set3)

- use soft-fullscreen now, instead of changing display modes. This looks better

  on almost all modern monitors. As a consequence, a screenshot made on full

  screen will be larger and will probably show letter boxes at the sides.

- huge updates to the Software DB:

  - many fixes

  - countless new entries for many ROM files you can find on the web

- when using IPS patches, the patched ROM will be looked up in the Software DB

- support host system function keys up to F24 now

- improved error messages on console commands (e.g. wrong number of arguments,

  unknown options, wrong subcommands)

- fixed cursor grabbing when going to and coming back from fullscreen

- enable HighDPI support (at least fixes some issues on macOS)

- fixed (removed) influence of user pressing modifier keys (CTRL/SHIFT/...)

  when text is typed into the MSX (e.g. with type command, auto cassette run,

  text pasting)

- added -once flag to 'debug set_bp' (and related commands) to trigger once

- several fixes to the unicode map files, so that pasting and CHARACTER

  keyboard mode works better (especially on Spanish MSX machines)

- added a debug probe on the V99x8 command execution and with that made the

  vdp_busy script more accurate

- worked around bug/limitation of MSX-BIOS when typing MSX characters 00-1F,

  which now works reliably

- fixed crash when using a relative path with the -setting command line option

- fixed 'kbd_code_kana_host_key' setting (did (sometimes?) not work anymore)

- use Rebecca Bettencourt's officially proposed Unicode mapping of MSX character

  set

- save_msx_screen script now also supports interlaced images

- added '-command' command line option to execute the given command after

  starting

- disable V99x8 specific debug writes on MSX1 VDP's

- added an optional <exit-code>-parameter to the exit command

- added script and MSX-DOS tool to give openMSX commands from within the

  emulated MSX (which is not enabled by default)

- when recording to video with throttle off, save time by displaying as few

  frames as possible on the screen

- now remember window position when the window is recreated (e.g. when changing

  renderers or coming back from full screen)

- make it easier to handle non-specific input events in Tcl scripts

- WARNING: backwards incompatible change to the 'machine_info device <device>'

  command. The result for ROM devices is now a dict (instead of a list) with at

  least one key-value pair, with key "type". For certain devices more key-value

  pairs are present, that were previously in list elements 1 to 3. Example to

  get the mapper type of device 'usas':

  dict get [machine_info device usas] "mappertype"

  And to get the device type (works for any device) of MyCoolDevice:

  dict get [machine_info device MyCoolDevice] "type"

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- migrated to SDL2 (2.0.12)

- unfortunately, the Android port is for now broken, as we did not integrate it

  into our build system yet (and that's not easy). The C++ code does compile,

  and now requires NDK20 and API level 18 (Android 4.3)

- updated all other 3rdparty libraries as well, like upgrading to Tcl 8.6

- SDLGL-PP renderer now requires OpenGL 3.3, shaders are now in GLSL 3.30

- support for pkg-config in the build system, e.g. to build FreeType

- C++ code is based on C++17 and thus requires a compiler supporting it, e.g.

  g++ 7 or later or Visual Studio 2019 or later

- fixed endianness on ppc64le

- fixed compilation for big-endian CPUs with g++-9

- migrated build system and all other Python scripts to Python 3, as Python 2

  is now officially dead

- documentation is now in HTML5 instead of XHTML

openMSX 0.15.0 (2018-12-08)

---------------------------

Again a release, because we did quite a lot, so it's due! Major new stuff is

support for ColecoVision (including Super Game Module and MegaCart mapper),

Musical Memory Mapper and Carnivore 2. And we have fixed a lot of long-standing

OPL4 emulation issues, thanks to Valley Bell. Furthermore, we overhauled the

Android port, but you'll mostly notice the scale factor 2 there. And several

other (sometimes very long standing) issues were fixed.

Here's the list with all highlights and details:

MSX device support:

- fixed 16 year old bug regarding sprites behaviour as shown in Ash Guine 3

- fixed National CF-3300: it has a 2DD disk drive, not 1DD

- fixed V9958 commands in non-bitmap modes

- allow non-standard cartridge slots to be used as normal cartridge slots,

  consistently

- fixed VDP type of National FS-1300

- fixed a bug in the turboR mapper

- fixed a bug regarding VIBrato in the YM2413 (Okazaki core)

- fixed CAPS lock on SVI 318/328

- fixed Canon V-20 configurations

- fixed Sanyo MPC-25FD configuration

- added support for 2 mapper read back bits, used in Panasonic MSX2+ machines

- added emulation of the SN76489 DCSG sound chip

- added emulation of the Musical Memory Mapper

- added emulation of ColecoVision, ColecoVision Super Game Module

- added emulation of the MegaCart mapper, used in some new homebrew

  ColecoVision games (mostly MSX ports)

- added emulation of the Carnivore 2 cartridge

- improved emulation of OPL4 (wave part) considerably, thanks to Valley Bell

- added emulation of bizarre I/O port mirroring of Philips Music Module (thanks

  to Grauw and L. Oliveira for doing the research)

- implemented Y8950 status register bit 0

- fixed exact formula for noise generation on AY8910 (PSG)

- made memory mapper ports readable on MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD, conforming to the

  latest version of this cartridge

- added new machines: Sony HB-G900AP (thanks to Louthrax), Eurohard/Radofin

  Dragon MSX (thanks to MAME), Yamaha CX7/128 and CX7M/128 (thanks to Peter

  Hanraets), Al Alamiah Sakhr AX230, Sanyo MPC-2, Yamaha CX11 (thanks to

  Tabajara Labs) and Toshiba HX-32 (thanks to Jorge Janaite Neto)

- added new extensions: Musical Memory Mapper, Carnivore 2 and SN76489 (on the

  same I/O port as PlaySoniq)

New or improved emulator features:

- fixed some crashes when using very high Z80 frequencies

- improved tab-completion to initially hide internal procs, until you specify

  the namespace

- many updates to the software database

- many updates to the VGM recorder script, thanks to Niek. Use 'help vgm_rec'

  to find out about the new subcommands. Sample RAM content is now logged even

  when starting recording after the sample kit is loaded, actual data recording

  starts automatically when data is sent to the chip, the proper OPL4 init data

  is automatically written to the VGM file, and many more things.

- changed default machine symlinks to JP machines (for applicable systems)

- many robustness fixes against bad XML config files

- added videosource setting to OSD menu, GFX9000 is getting more popular

- fixed reverse bug in GFX9000

- performance improvements: several fixes to improve start-up time

- added support for DCSG in the music keyboard and vu meters script

- changed events about unplugging to an empty plug-event

- changed fixed scale factor from 1 to 2 on Android

- added OSD menu button to open the main menu for Android, as (most?) modern

  Android devices do not have a menu button anymore

- OSD menu: fixed issue of getting stuck in an unreadable directory when

  browsing for a file (e.g. on Android)

- added scrollbar when showing lists in OSD menu, as a visual cue on the length

  of a list; the scrollbar cannot be dragged

- fixed crash in hq/hqlite scalers in interlace modes

- fixed frame skipping when doing 'debug continue'

- fixed function keys not working anymore when console is open on macOS

- exposed tile viewer widget to the console (try "about tile")

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- upgraded C-BIOS to release 0.29a: default to 60Hz generic international

  config

- to load older savestates, added all C-BIOS ROMs shipped with openMSX 0.7.0

  and later for your convenience

- put several pieces of code under unit-test with the Catch2 framework

- added svicpm2dmk utility so disk images from the web can be converted to a

  suitable DMK file for use with the SVI-707 drive with CP/M ROM

- reworked complete Android port build. Now uses NDK 18b and recent version of

  commandergenius Android SDL port and all other 3rd party libraries are built

  by the openMSX build system. Minimum required Android version is now 4.1.

- removed all hand-made ARM and 32-bit x86 assembly code

- fixed version information of application on macOS

- added workaround for FreeType no longer installing its config script

- enabled retina support on macOS

- advise people to compile with Xcode 9.4.1 on macOS, not Xcode 10 (see issue

  #1126)

openMSX 0.14.0 (2017-08-03)

---------------------------

This release is another mix of some new features and additions and a lot of

smaller fixes and improvements. This release adds support for Konami Ultimate

Collection and basic emulation for the Spectravideo SVI-318 and SVI-328 pre-MSX

computers, increases FDC accuracy in such a way that we think all copy

protections (captured in a DMK file) should now run in openMSX. Moreover, we

now put the SDLGL-PP renderer as the default, so let us know how that works for

you. You can of course always set the old default setting for your system if

you don't like SDLGL-PP. But then we would really like to know why... We also

removed the Windows DirectX sound driver, as it was buggy and caused a lot of

complaints. And finally, we added a button in the top left corner to easily

invoke the OSD menu.

Here's the list with all highlights and details:

MSX device support:

- fixed VDP type of Sony HB-501P

- fixed a bug that caused hangups on some machines when resetting during the

  logo animation

- fixed ROM block debuggable for Sunrise IDE

- improved accuracy of WD2793 FDC and disk drive emulation

- added support for Spectravideo SVI-318 and SVI-328 pre-MSX computers:

  - most SVI support was implemented by Tomas Karlsson. With NYYRIKKI's help

    we fixed most last details

  - added in Contrib a tool to convert SVI disk images to DMK so they can be

    used in openMSX

  - added SVI support to several scripts (thanks to NYYRIKKI): cashandler,

    type_via_keybuf, listing

  - note the following limitations:

    - only WAV images are supported for cassettes. The stereo feature

      (music/sound on the other channel) is not supported.

    - only DMK disk images can be used

    - nothing is done to prevent the user to mix MSX and SVI hardware/software.

      This will not work, of course. As we are not SVI enthusiasts ourselves,

      we rely on contributions from others for the SVI support.

- added accurate M1 cycle emulation

- added support for ASCII8 mapper with 32kB SRAM

- added initial support for the ASCII paddle input device (paddle 1 and 2 only)

- added new machines: Bawareth Perfect MSX1, Al Alamiah AX370 (thanks to

  alshamaa), and as already mentioned: Spectravideo SVI-318, SVI-328 and a

  superexpanded SVI-328.

- added new extensions: Konami Ultimate Collection, ASCII Japanese MSX-Write,

  ASCII Japanese MSX-Write II and Tecall TM220 MSX-RAMFILE

New or improved emulator features:

- performance improvements:

  - reverse feature

  - hq resampler

- fixed issue with remote connections on Mac OS X/FreeBSD

- changed default sound driver on Windows to SDL, because the DirectX sound

  driver has been removed

- fixed creation of new HD images

- changed the default renderer to SDLGL-PP

- (probably!) fixed stability of MIDI-in on Windows. Unfortunately we didn't

  find someone to help us test this properly

- also improved stability on external connections in general

- allow to specify initial content for flash ROMs. This way it is possible to

  use MegaFlashROMSCC+SD like how the actual hardware is also shipped:

  preflashed.

- several improvements on the listing command (thanks to NYYRIKKI)

- added automatic file numbering for record_channels

- added a tron script (thanks to NYYRIKKI)

- added script that records to a new AVI file if the framerate changes (thanks

  to BiFi and FiXato for their initial version)

- added mapper selection to OSD menu for unknown ROMs

- automatically pad ROM files if they are not a multiple of the block size,

  instead of refusing to run that ROM

- added OSD button to invoke OSD menu in the top left corner

- added VGM recorder script (by Niek Vlessert) to help you record MSX songs

  into VGM files, supporting PSG, MSX-MUSIC, MSX-AUDIO, OPL4 and SCC

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- migrated from SDL threads to C++11 threads

- removed support for Maemo5

- moved Windows build to Visual Studio 2017

- upgraded C-BIOS to release 0.28

openMSX 0.13.0 (2016-07-31)

---------------------------

This again was meant to be (mostly) a bug fix release, but again it also has

some nice additions and improvements to enjoy. Important improvements are much

better support for VDP I/O delay in turbo machines (fixing graphics issues due

to too fast VDP access there), more accurate MSX1 color palette, progress

reporting for long operations and ALSA MIDI-out support for Linux. This is also

one of the first releases that drops support for older platforms: Windows XP,

Dingoo A320 (but introducing support for GCW Zero) and non-64-bit MacOSX. If

you still want to run openMSX on these, you'll be stuck on using a previous

release or start maintaining these platforms yourself.

Here's the list with all highlights and details:

MSX device support:

- fixed bug in ASCII-8 mapper of MegaFlashROM SCC+ (SD)

- fixed bug in border drawing in text mode with YJK/YAE bits

- fixed bug in LMMC VDP command that appeared in Baltak Rampage greetings part

- fixed bug in YMF278 (OPL4 wave part) preventing samples to be played sometimes

- improved R800 timing for the CALL instruction

- added missing hardware VDP delay in turbo mode of MSX2+ machines

- improved accuracy and completeness of the Matsushita switched I/O ports

  device:

  - added bits on turbo status and presence

  - added the device to the Sanyo MSX2+ machines (without SRAM and turbo)

  - removed fixed VDP I/O delay (because it is linked to the T9769 engine)

- added support for the different fixed VDP I/O delays of the different T9769

  engines and added these to the configuration files of the machine that have

  these (as far as that is known)

- added support for Epson Chakkari Copy, thanks to Rudolf Lechleitner and

  Enrico Barbisan

- added 2MB MegaRAM extension (thanks to Mauricio Braga)

- added MIDI Interface 3 extension (cart that implements turboR GT internal

  MIDI without BIOS ROM)

- added support for mapper of Japanese MSX Write

- added support for Spectravideo SVI-707 disk drive

- added support for the V9990 POINT VDP command

- added support for more realistic TMS VDP pallettes: it's now possible to

  specify the saturation for the Pb and Pr channel (this is dependent on the

  analog electronics in the MSX video circuit) which affects the palette. E.g.

  all machines with TMS9x2x have a brighter palette now, as they should.

- added weird color palette of the Fujitsu FM-X RGB output (3 bit RGB)

- added a high-resolution timer extension: a cartridge with a 32-bit counter

  that counts at 3.57 MHz. Useful for debugging and reverse engineering. Only

  one such real cartridge exists :)

- added new machines: Aucnet NIA-2001 MSXturboR (thanks to PiterPunk/NYYRIKKI),

  Frael BRUC_100 version 1 and 2 (thanks to RJP, FRS, et al), Pioneer UC-V102

  (thanks to PiterPunk), Victor HC-80 (thanks to Daniele), Toshiba HX-23F and

  HX-23 (thanks to FRS)

- added new extension: Sanyo MRS-001 RS-232C cartridge (thanks to mtn)

New or improved emulator features:

- fixed bug in parsing remote command XML (causing e.g. ROM names with special

  characters not to get communicated to openMSX correctly from Catapult)

- fixed crash in 'reverse goback'

- fixed inserting a slotexpander in a specific slot

- fixed slowness issue when taking screenshots frame by frame

- fixed support of files larger than 2GB (e.g. hard disk images) on Windows

- fixed VDP status flag when using cmdtiming broking (infinitely fast VDP

  commands)

- fixed excessive delay on 'reverse goto' with ram watch enabled

- OSD menu:

  - fixed (un)plugging (connectors)/pluggables with spaces in their name

  - fixed loading savestate with more than one . in its filename

  - support up to 2 hard disk images (just like ROMs and disk drives)

- fixed bug that cassette image was removed when doing reverse goto 0

- fixed save_msx_screen for 2nd page of screen 7-12 (thanks to FRS)

- improved robustness of DirAsDisk

- added progress update reporting when doing operations that take a lot of time

  (like calculating a hash of a large file or doing a large step in a replay)

- fixed unintended extra calculation of hash for hard disk images when

  reversing

- made joystickN_deadzone setting's numbering consistent with joystickN_config;

  both are now 0-based

- added debuggable for printer port, containing strobe and data byte

- added experimental support for ALSA MIDI out (Linux): now it's much easier to

  connect MSX MIDI out devices to a soft synth or other application on Linux

- improved support for UNC paths on Windows (network drives)

- added a script to speed up the type command: type_via_keybuf (thanks to

  NYYRIKKI for the initial version). Default type implementation can now be

  tuned with the new default_type_proc setting.

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- to compile with gcc you now need gcc 4.8 or higher

- updated Visual Studio projects to Visual Studio 2015

- dropped support for Windows XP, because it seems Visual Studio 2015 has bugs

  in supporting it

- dropped support for Dingoo A320, because its toolchain is now so outdated

  that it can't compile the openMSX source code any longer

- added build, packaging and documentation support for GCW Zero

- dropped support for universal binaries on Mac OS X, as all supported Mac OS X

  versions require x86-64 CPU's

- updated Tcl to 8.5.18

- updated libpng to 1.6.20

- now optionally link to libasound on Linux (for the ALSA MIDI support)

- added debug flag to build system that shows which commands are executed:

  make V=1

- improved description on how to use MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD

openMSX 0.12.0 (2015-09-12)

---------------------------

This was going to be (mostly) a bug fix release. But at the end we also got

inspired by Grauw to add a lot of MIDI devices. And, reviewing what we changed

the last 10 months, we saw that we also got loads of help from several people

to add many new machine configurations and added some fun stuff like Sensor Kid

and (experimental) Beer IDE emulation. On the emulator features category we

give you stuff like triplesize video recording, some TAS enhancements and a

callback for too fast VRAM access.

So, enjoy this 'various features and bug fixes' release!

Here's the list with all highlights and details:

MSX device support:

- fixed (S)RAM writing on turboR

- fixed border color in screen 11/12

- fixed some details of SD card emulation (found with FUZIX)

- fixed clipping bug in sprite-mode-1 drawing

- fixed crash in openMSX when using the AVT DPF-550 extension

- fixed support of 8kB RS-232C ROMs (which is the only correct size!)

- fixed emulation of joystick mode of the mouse

- fixed broken MegaFlashROM SCC+ (introduced with openMSX 0.11.0)

- improved trackball movement emulation so that JoyTest can also detect it like

  on real hardware

- fixed touchpad joystick pins (fixing detection in JoyTest)

- tweaked volumes of SFG-01/05 against the PSG

- added Panasonic FS-A1WSX/WX variant ot the MSX-MUSIC mapper

- added proper YM2148 emulation (MIDI in/out for Yamaha SFG modules)

- added proper MC6850 emulation (MIDI in/out for Philips Music Module)

- added emulation of FAC MIDI Interface

- added emulation of Sensor Kid, ported from yayaMSX2SK, which is based on

  Mr. Takeda's Common Source Code Project

- added emulation of BeerIDE (experimental)

- added many new machines: Canon V-25 (thanks to Rudi Westerhof), Canon V-8,

  Fenner/Samsung SPC-800, Hitachi MB-H1, Toshiba HX-10D (thanks to Ricardo

  Jurcyk Pinheiro), Canon V-10, Canon V-20 (JP), Spectravideo SVI-728 (ES),

  Mitsubishi ML-TS2 (partly, it's still work-in-progress), Sony HB-101 (JP),

  Sony HB-201 (JP), Sanyo MPC-6, Mitsubishi ML-F120 and ML-F110 and Hitachi

  MB-H3 (thanks to Werner Kai) and Yamaha AX350IIF (thanks to Rudolf Gutlich)

New or improved emulator features:

- added "too_fast_vram_access_callback": you can now run a Tcl script when the

  running MSX software accesses VRAM too fast, e.g. break to debug

- added display of 'movie length' in TAS mode. This is the length of your

  'movie' if you upload it to tasvideos.org

- added -triplesize to video recorder: allows creation of video files in

  960x720 pixels, for which YouTube renders videos at 60 fps.

- some fixes in keyboard mappings

- fixed slow console when emulation speed is very low

- add a snapshot 'near the end' to the OMR when saving it, allowing quicker

  continuation of the replay after loading it

- similarly, add snapshots when fast-forwarding to the target time, so they

  can be used to jump back more quickly

- show reverse bar in green when replaying in viewonly mode

- added a converter from/to OMR to/from text, which allows you to more easily

  edit the OMR outside of openMSX

- improved implementation of 'auto-save' feature of replays: the setting will

  now persist over openMSX sessions

- added an OSD overlay for Metal Gear

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- replace mingw32 build support with MinGW-w64 build support on Windows

- updated our website and other URL's to point to http://openmsx.org/ or

  GitHub

openMSX 0.11.0 (2014-11-08)

---------------------------

This release brings you the following important new features: VDP access timing

now also for MSX1 modes (corruption with too fast VRAM access will be visible

now), implementation of most defailed differences between all used VDP chips

and emulation of MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD.

On top of that, there are some important (long standing) bug fixes, like the

proper implementation of envelopes for MSX-AUDIO, fixing for example "Copy is

Crime" by Impact.

And last but not least, a lot of work was done under the bonnet, giving you

even better performance and preparations for the future.

Here's the list with all highlights:

MSX device support:

- VDP:

  - implemented access timing also for character and text modes (both for MSX1

    VDP's and V99x8): too fast VDP access will now cause corruption on openMSX

    too

  - added support for specific MSX1 VDP's (mostly thanks to hap for all the

    research):

    - the exact VDP type can now be specified in the config file

    - differences between Toshiba T6950/T7937A, TMS99xx and TMS91xx MSX1 VDP's

      are now emulated (except sprite cloning)

    - updated many machine configs with the proper MSX1 VDP type (where known,

      additions/corrections are welcome!)

  - implemented that V99x8 does not support undocumented mixed modes

  - fixed bug in 5/9th sprite detection status register

  - added I/O port mirroring to machines of which we are certain it exists

- MSX-AUDIO (Y8950) and related:

  - fixed envelope for MSX-AUDIO (Y8950), the infamous legato-envelope bug is

    now finally fixed!

  - fixed handling of key-off for percussive tones

  - fixed detection of Philips Music Module in Tetris II Special Edition

- added emulation of MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD. Note: the implementation is such

  that existing software works on it, but do not fully rely on it when

  developing for this cartridge!

- improved Sony HBI-55 emulation

- fixed some details in several machine configurations

- fixed KANA/CODE key not working in CHARACTER input mode

- added the following machines: Daewoo CPC-51 Zemmix V, Daewoo CPC-300E,

  Toshiba HX-51I, Yamaha YIS-503IIR, Toshiba FS-TM1, Sanyo MPC-10 (Wavy 10),

  Yamaha CX5MII, Fujitsu FM-X (thanks to NYYRIKKI, Werner Kai, Maxim Vlasov and

  Alex Krasivsky)

- added the Casio KB-7 and KB-10 docking stations (note: these extensions only

  work with the Casio PV-7 and MX-10 respectively; do not be worried

  when they appear to be not working according to Catapult!)

- added the MSX Acid Test machines, contributed by FRS

- added the Gradiente CT-80E 80 column card extension, thanks to Maurício Braga

New or improved emulator features:

- added de-flicker video filter via new 'deflicker' setting. Use this to remove

  flickering in cases like the dvik demos where 105 colors are simulated on

  MSX1 by alternating different native colors. It's disabled by default.

- performance improvements:

  - speed up execution of Tcl scripts

  - many various other optimizations

- fixed auto_enable_reverse (set/unset auto enabling reverse at startup)

- rewrote most OpenGL 2 code to be more compatible with OpenGL ES

- improved guessing of mapper type for 64kB ROMs

- fixed a bug with watch_points affecting the execution flow

- fixed corruption in XSA disk images

- added NYYRIKKI's fast CAS loading/saving script, enable with setting the

  'fast_cas_load_hack_enabled' setting to on

- joysticks/controllers:

  - added setting to configure dead zone for joysticks

  - added support for joystick hats (can be used just like buttons)

  - improved support in OSD menu (take deadzone into account)

- added dir-as-disk support for the OSD menu

- removed experimental libao sound driver

- added support for R-ALT on Korean keyboard (thanks to Miso Kim)

- TAS: added possibility to query the length of the current replay (defined as

  the time stamp of the last input)

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- even more use of C++11 features, when using gcc use 4.7 or higher

- removed build dependency on libxml2

- removed many/all unused features/libs from the build system

- added support to cross compile with MinGW-w64 for (at least) 32 bit Windows

  using Linux

- cleaned up the stuff in the doc directory - you now get what we really wanted

  you to get :)

- changed packaging method to include stuff by default instead of exclude stuff

  by default

- fixed native compilation on mipsel

- upgraded C-BIOS to release 0.27

openMSX 0.10.1 (2014-05-01)

---------------------------

This release fixes mostly bugs we introduced with 0.10.0 or were already

present for a bit longer... sorry for those, but most should be fixed now :)

There are also some small but nice additions...

Here's the list with all highlights:

MSX device support:

- fixed bug in YM2413 (FMPAC), that was audible in BPS Tetris

- added Sharp/Epcom HB-4000 80 column cartridge extension

New or improved emulator features:

- extended save_msx_screen script to take VDP(24) into acount

- fixed crash on Visual Studio build when using wav files (e.g. in the

  cassetteplayer)

- fixed crash on 32-bit Visual Studio build when recording videos without

  the -doublesize option

- fixed crash on 32-bit Visual Studio build when using scale_factor 3 and SDL

  renderer

- fixed waves shown upside-down in the SCC Viewer OSD widget

- fixed crash when loading a savestate that has JoyTap plugged in

- performance improvements:

  - several improvements that result in shorter start up time

  - fixed reverse-performance when using hard disks

- fixed handling of corrupt hardware configuration XML file

- fixed crash when MSX with TC8566AF FDC (e.g. turboR) crashed

- fixed possible hang up when reversing with harddisks

- fixed Tcl error when changing horizontal stretch in OSD menu

- fixed displaying of error messages on OSD

- Mac OS X MIDI support:

  - fixed MIDI output on Mac OS X (was not working for some applications)

  - added support for running status

  - added support for system realtime messages

  - added support for MIDI in

- fixed issues with on-screen-keyboard on Android 4.4

- added default keybindings for controllers targeted at gaming

- added mapping of B-control button to press CTRL or SHIFT in OSD keyboard

- added fine grained control in which slots carts and extensions will end up

- added support for single sided disk drives for dir-as-disk

- added support for hard disk images to the OSD menu

- added warning if ROM images with larger size than supported on real Konami

  and Konami SCC mappers are used

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- updated Windows build to Visual Studio 2013

- made compilation faster by removing more than 250 unnecessary includes

- even more use of C++11 features

- upgraded Tcl to 8.5.15

- added build support for 64-bit ARM

- added 256x256 pixel openMSX logo image and use it e.g. for Mac OS X icon

- fixed staticbindist build with more recent clang releases and for Mac OS 10.9

  SDK

- do not link against libraries in /usr/lib anymore on Mac OS X, only link

  against frameworks. This enables to compile against the default SDK.

openMSX 0.10.0 (2014-01-05)

---------------------------

This release adds many larger and smaller features, but most outstanding are:

cycle accurate VDP command engine timing, an Android port, subdirectory support

for dir-as-disk and Neos MA-20 support. These features meant a lot of work was

done in practically all parts of the code (of which you can read the results in

the complete list below), but at the same time we also freshened up much of the

code using many of the new C++11 language features. All in all, it was time to

release this stuff officially...

Here's the list with all highlights:

MSX device support:

- accuracy improvements:

  - improved TMS99X8/TMS9929 color palette

  - improved V9990/GFX9000:

    - VRAM reads go via 1-byte buffer

    - VRAM read/write pointers only get updated when R#2 and R#5 get written

    - fixed initial content of VRAM of GFX9000

    - V9990 P1/P2 sprites that are disabled still count for the 16 sprite limit

    - fixed roll behaviour of layer B in P1 mode

  - turboR TC8566AF has other register memory mapping than other machines

  - use correct Kanji font ROM for Victor HC-95A and removed S1985

  - added cycle accurate VDP command engine timing (can be disabled with the

    new too_fast_vram_access setting)

  - fixes in YM2413 emulation (FMPAC)

- added mapper support:

  - MSXtra cartridge (a debugging tool released by PTC which has its own RAM)

  - MultiROM Collection, designed by Manuel Pazos in 2006

  - ASCII8 mapper with 2kB SRAM

  - ASCII16 mapper with 8kB SRAM

  - Super Swangi (a.k.a. Super Altered Beast)

- added support for MSX touch pad

- added mu-PACK extension, a MIDI module to upgrade a turboR ST to GT

- added support for large hard disk images and LaserDisc images (>4GB)

- added initial RAM patterns for Sony HB-F1XDJ and Sanyo PHC-23J

- added support for Neos MA-20 Version Up Adapter (MSX1 to MSX2 converter),

  insert both Neos_MA-20R and Neos_MA-20V extensions for this

- fixed Toshiba MSX-AUDIO with no sample RAM

- fixes in joystick, mouse and track ball emulation

- minor fixes in Y8950 (MSX-AUDIO) and YMF262 (MoonSound)

- added OPL3Cartridge2_mono and OPL3Cartridge2_stereo extensions

- added Yamaha SFG-01 extension and replaced the SFG-05 with the SFG-01 in the

  CX5M machine

- added an experimental Boosted_MSXturboR with IDE machine config

- added Casio PV-16, Casio P-7, Casio MX-10, Goldstar FC-80U and Sony HB-F1XV

  machines and an experimental Zemmix Super V (Daewoo CPC-61) machine config

New or improved emulator features:

- added subdirectory support for dir-as-disk

- added configurable host to MSX joystick mapping, e.g. useful to bind the

  crawl command (button A+B) in Metal Gear 2 to a single PC joystick button

- added support for bash completion (useful for using openMSX on the bash

  command line)

- performance improvements:

  - improved start-up performance (on Dingoo openMSX starts over 20% faster)

  - reduced CPU overhead when enabling reverse

  - further optimized CPU emulation

  - sped up CAS loading (use 3744 baud instead of 2760 baud)

  - reduce input latency (poll host events more often and remove delays)

  - speed up reverse in combination with harddisk by using incremental hashing

- reverse/TAS:

  - added reverse subcommand to truncate the current replay

  - show two decimals in the reverse bar time

  - added setting to prevent the reversebar from fading out and made that the

    behaviour in TAS mode

  - added bookmarks feature to reverse bar

  - added possibility to customize TAS key bindings in an external script

  - added setting to auto save replays at intervals

  - added command to reset the lag counter

  - added commands to go to frame boundaries and advance/reverse to frame

    boundaries

  - show values of TAS widgets also in the middle of a frame

- several improvements on the OSD menu:

  - several improvements on the file browser

  - better error handling

  - only show media menu options that are relevant for the current machine

    (e.g. do not show disk drives when the machine has none)

  - added support for LaserDisc

  - added a quit menu with confirmation

  - added limitsprites setting

  - added basic mouse/touch support, including:

    - right click to close current menu

    - support for scrollwheel of mouse to scroll in lists

  - only show video options if they actually make sense

  - added option to make current machine default (started when launching

    openMSX)

  - added resampler setting (for performance tuning)

  - added detailed sound chip control (balance, volume, per channel mute)

  - added possibility to browse to other drives on Windows

  - added possibility to insert a new tape in the cassette player and made it

    easy to browse to your newly created tapes

  - added short cuts to browse to your file pools (if they contain stuff)

  - added confirmation dialog before overwriting existing save states

  - added feedback when executing actions like inserting disk, saving state

- remove SSE and MMX assembly routines, only keep rewritten SSE2 routines

- added interleaving with black frame for monitors with LightBoost support

- added OSD widget that displays how busy the VDP is

- enable grab on fullscreen (workaround for Mac issue)

- added Cmd+I hotkey to press Insert key on Mac

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- created Android port (available via Google Play)

- migrated to git

- updated Windows build to Visual Studio 2012 update 3

- prepare for Visual Studio 2013 (next release will be built with it)

- now a compiler which supports C++11 is required to compile openMSX, like g++

  4.6, clang 3.0 or Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

- integrated Dingoo packaging in the build system

- better support for 64 bit systems (sizes, memory, etc.)

- added document about details on VDP command engine timing

- changed machine configurations from specific directories to just an XML file

- removed the GP2X port

- Mac support is now limited to Mac OS X 10.7 (so 64-bit only) and higher

openMSX 0.9.1 (2012-09-30)

--------------------------

This release mostly fixes a bug in dir-as-disk that was introduced in openMSX

0.9.0, when adding support for the DMK format and low level disk emulation. We

not only fixed that bug, we rewrote dir-as-disk almost completely, making it a

lot more robust.

Here's the list with all highlights:

MSX device support:

- Accuracy improvements:

  - improved some details on the laserdisc emulation

  - improved timing of the VDP LINE command (thanks to NYYRIKKI for the ideas)

- added Toshiba HX-21, Toshiba HX-22 and Toshiba HX-22I. The latter two have a

  switchable RS-232C interface (use the new toshiba_rs232c_switch setting)

New or improved emulator features:

- fixed crash with fast resampler and 8192 samples

- dir-As-Disk:

  - dir-as-disk works properly again and is now a lot more robust

  - improve error reporting when something goes wrong

- console support/scripts:

  - added script to save current screen to file in MSX loadable format, thanks

    to NYYRIKKI

- performance improvements:

  - improved console rendering speed (uses less CPU)

  - improved Tcl integration

  - speed up low level disk emulation

  - optimized rendering of superimposed modes (Video9000, laserdisc)

  - several other performance improvements

Build system, packaging, documentation:

- Added build support for DragonFly BSD, thanks to John Marino

openMSX 0.9.0 (2012-08-12)

--------------------------

This release improves a lot on accuracy of floppy support, especially by the

introduction of support for the DMK format. This means it should be possible to

run all MSX disk software without patching it.

Furthermore, our efforts to improve performance has some results: start up time

has almost halved on a Dingoo A320!

Here's the list with all highlights:

MSX device support:

- Bug fixes:

  - overscan: 512x512 demo by NYYRIKKI and Don't Cock It Up by Matra now work

  - cursor order in B-modes of GFX9000

  - several small issues in existing MSX machine configurations

  - broken border rendering on ARM CPU's

  - 2nd drive detection on National machines

  - detail in MSX-AUDIO that prevented proper detection in MSX-AUDIO BIOS 1.3

- Accuracy improvements:

  - much improved accuracy for Floppy Drive Controllers (mostly WD2793 and

    alike)

  - added support for delayed motor off for disk drives, as in real machines

    implemented by the CXD1032 chip

  - disk drive rotation is now correct

  - added support for persistency of S1985 back-up RAM

  - added support for specifying the initial content of RAM and VRAM. Fixing

    this for the Philips MSX2's shows why Cas Cremers never noticed a bug in

    Akin, causing white pixels on the screen

- Added initial support for Video9000: