blueMSX 1.7.0

Version 1.7.0 of blueMSX is available! Although it was announced that no new version of the emulator would be released before november 2004, Daniel Vik and his team have decided to release a version with mainly bugfixes and that can be viewed as the required passage to the Turbo-R support in the next version.

By the implementation of the M1 additionnal waiting states, optimization of the VDP emulation and retuning of the Z80, VDP and MSX-AUDIO timings, the emulator comes with more accuracy, stability and performance. Just take a look at the scope part of the Unknown Reality demo, it now works 100% correctly.

Support for patched disk rom is now replaced in all general and special machines by support of the Panasonic TC8566AF floppy drive controller. In the future, other fdc's will also be supported.

Here is a list of the other changes:

• Added Dir as Dsk feature
• Added remembering of the position of the main dialogs on the screen
• Added tools to create new themes for the emulator layout with customisable skins
• Added real interlace mode (to complement the de-interlaced mode)
• Improved automatic detection of rom mapper type for roms of 8Kb size
• Improved colors for screen 8 and for MSX2+ screens
• Improved dropdown menu for selecting the rom mapper type
• Improved Moonsound support - thanks to Wouter Vermaelen and the openMSX dev team (these fixes will also be available in the next openMSX release)
• Simplified menu for SCC/SCC+ (only 2 options in stead of 5)
• Fixed bugs in MSX-AUDIO and Moonsound emulation
• Fixed bugs in the MSX2+ horizontal scroll support
• Fixed different bugs in the VDP emulation
• Fixed bug in the Super Pierrot mapper (ascii16nf)
• Fixed bugs in the refreshing of menus
• Fixed bug when creating blank dsk/cas image via file name requester
• Fixed bug in the cassette position dialog (files weren't showed properly when custom files checkbox was deselected)
• Fixed bug in the open file dialog (confusion between slot 1 and slot 2)
• Fixed bug in the screen capture feature when using zip file with folder structure

Relevant link:blueMSX website