MSX emulator

This is an MSX emulator for POSIX compatible (e.g. Linux) systems.
It currently only supports 'screen 0' (the 40/80x24 ascii screen), 'screen1' (the one you see at first when the MSX boots) and 'screen 2', memory mappers, msx-dos megarom and konami 5 megarom, printer, rudimentary audio and almost complete keyboard-emulation.
This emulator is merely a toy-project to test the z80ex ZiLOG z80 emulation library - please note that I do accept patches! :-)

Requirements/settings

This program requires the following:

ncurses (for debugging output)
SDL (portable graphics library)
z80ex (emulates the Z80 processor)
libsndfile
Terminal program set to a resolution of 85x35 (or better)
Copy of the MSX(1) BIOS+BASIC ROM which can be found here

Download

Binaries

msxemul-1.4_AIX-6.1.tar.gz - for AIX 6.1

Sources

msx-1.5.tgz msx-1.3.tgz
msx-1.2.tgz msx-1.1.tgz msx-1.0.tgz
msx-0.9.tgz msx-0.8.tgz msx-0.7.tgz
msx-0.6.tgz msx-0.5.tgz msx-0.4.tgz
msx-0.3.tgz msx-0.2.tgz msx-0.1.tgz

History

1.5 more verbose disk i/o, sony hbi-55 emulation, cycle administration improved, some turbo-r ports emulation added, started to work on vdp-commands
1.3 implemented 'screen 1' (as it is called in basic)
1.2 improved keyboard handling, sound now somewhat works
1.1 fixed keyboard handling
1.0 implemented memory mappers, rtc emulation, some MSX-2 VDP emulation, msx-dos2 support, improved keyboard handling (altough still not 100%), printer output
0.9 implemented megarom support
0.8 implemented sprites
0.7 added missing headerfiles, fixed colors in graphics mode
0.6 fixed graphics output
0.5 disk i/o now really works
0.4 reading sectors from a disk seems to work
0.3 graphics output fixes, debugging enhancements
0.2 keyboard fixes, graphical output fixes
0.1 first version released on the internet

Screenshot

A megarom ('Nemesis 2' by Konami) Version 0.9	Running MSX-DOS 2 Version 1.0
Running UltraChess Version 1.3	Graphics ('screen 2') Konami 'Athletic Land' running on version 0.9
Graphics ('screen 2') with sprites Konami 'Magical Tree' running on version 0.9	Main output: text Version 0.9 running MSX-Basic with disk emulation
Running testmap Version 1.2 running testmap (which tests the functioning of the memory mapper)
Running zexall Version 1.2 running zexall, the Z80 emulation tester	Running B.U.G. Chess Version 1.2 running B.U.G. Chess