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
http://openmsx.org/
