Hi, The openMSX team is proud to present version 0.6.3 of their multi platform MSX emulator, along with Catapult, its GUI/launcher.
This release contains several new features and improvements related to sound. All sound chips are emulated at their native frequency and resampled using advanced resampling techniques to the desired output frequency (typically 44.1 kHz). The advanced resamplers improve the sound quality a lot, because they are free of aliasing distortions. Also a lock-up bug was removed from the Windows version, which could occur on dual core and hyperthreading CPU's. New or improved emulator features: * Several resampling algorithms now available: hq, blip and fast; the first two eliminate aliasing (thanks to Blargg for the Blip_Buffer algorithm) * Channels of sound chips can be individually recorded and muted * Sound chips now have a stereo balance setting instead of a left/right/mono mode * PSG sound effects: vibrato and detune (thanks to Wolf) * SDLGL-PP renderer (OpenGL 2.0) can now do RGBTriplet scaling in hardware * Several small optimizations, mostly in SDLGL-PP renderer and CPU emulation * Many new game trainers (thanks to Mars2000you) Home-grown MSX device support: * Improved accuracy in SCC emulation * Support for password cartridge * Support for the Super Lode Runner mapper MSX device support ported from blueMSX: * Partial support for Yamaha SFG-05 * Support for Konami's Keyboard Master * Support for ESE devices: MEGA SCSI, ESE RAM, ESE SCC, WAVE-SCSI * Support for Gouda/Novaxis SCSI * Real support for the Halnote mapper Many thanks to the blueMSX team for their code and support. Build system, packaging, documentation: * Added support for building a statically linked executable on Windows * Added support for building a backwards compatible executable on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (thanks to BouKiCHi) * Added support for DESTDIR, which should help packagers For the complete list of changes, please read the release notes. You can download openMSX 0.6.3 from SourceForge [1]; source, Win32 and Mac OS X (universal) packages are available. Andete made packages for Debian Etch and Ubuntu Gutsy. Packages for Debian Lenny and FreeBSD 6 should be available soon in their respective repositories. openMSX website: http://www.openmsx.org/ [1] http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=38274&package_id=30511&release_id=560483 -- Grtjs, Manuel PS: MSX FOR EVER! (Questions? http://faq.msxnet.org/ ) PPS: Visit my homepage at http://manuel.msxnet.org/ _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list (msx@stack.nl) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
