OpenMSX
openMSX is a free software emulator for the MSX architecture. It is available for multiple platforms, including Microsoft Windows and POSIX systems such as Linux.
For copyright reasons, the emulator cannot be distributed with original MSX-BIOS ROM images. Instead, openMSX includes C-BIOS, a minimal implementation of the MSX BIOS, allowing some games to be played without the original ROM image. It is possible for the user to replace C-BIOS by native BIOS if they prefer.
openMSX emulates a large amount of MSX systems and MSX-related hardware, including:
openMSX also emulates the SV-318/SV-328 computers, the ColecoVision and the Sega SG-1000.
Notable features include:
- Scalers
- Debugging including visual debugging of graphics
- Tcl Script Support
- Cheat Finder
- Game Trainers
- Audio/Video recording
- Reverse support
- openMSX Catapult
- openMSX Debugger )
- openMSXControl plugin
- NekoLauncher openMSX
- openMSX Peashooter
- openMSX Control Plugin for Gedit
The separate openMSX Debugger, written in C++ and utilizing the Qt Toolkit is not in development anymore, as efforts are now focused on the built-in debugger.
As of release 20.0, a GUI was integrated that replaces almost all functionality of the Catapult and separate Debugger programs. Both these sub-projects will not be developed further, in favour of the built-in functionality. The new GUI uses the Dear ImGUI toolkit.