Akop Karapetyan, aka uberjack has released his first version of CocoaMSX, an MSX emulator for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and higher. This new emulator is based on blueMSX, and includes features such as native Lion fullscreen mode, Finder previews for snapshots, and extensive configuration options, all in a native GUI.
Back in November 2012 uberjack presented his first alpha build in our Emulation forums and about a month later the first release candidate followed. At first only Mac OS X Lion and higher were supported, but after several users indicated they were still using Snow Leopard, a compatible build was released at the beginning of this year. This, and having implemented various other suggestions given in the forum topic as well as on the CocoaMSX community on Google Plus shows that the developer welcomes feedback, which is promising for further development. Especially the closer integration with the OS through snapshot previews as well as menu bar options makes this emulator stand apart from its competitor openMSX.
The full feature list is as follows:
- Based on blueMSX, one of the most accurate MSX emulators currently available
- Support for over 200 MSX systems
- Built-in support for cartridge (ROM) files
- Support for diskette (DSK) and cassette (CAS) files
- Support for MSX-Music, MSX-Audio, Moonsound, SCC and PSG sound systems
- Various video effects, such as scanlines and signal noise simulation
- Snapshots, with previews in Finder
- Support for MSX joysticks, joypads and mice
- Flexible keyboard and input peripheral configuration
- Screen capture
- Audio capture
- Full screen support, including multi-desktop mode full screen on Lion (10.7) and higher
- Automatic updates
While the emulator comes with just C-Bios machines by default, you can easily add other machines. However, as only MSX-support is enabled in CocoaMSX, the Colecovision, Sega and SVI machines won't be of much use. Is this your new favourite for Mac, or are there still features you miss?
Relevant link: CocoaMSX website
Relevant link: CocoaMSX Google+ Community Page
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