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Future of fMSX

If you’re a fan of the fMSX (my personal favorite) emulator, you might be interested to know what the future plans are.

Since the emulator’s recent speed boost (and various new tweaks in the PSP library) has vacated several million CPU cycles, the short-term plans are to compile the emulator with MSXAUDIO and MSXMUSIC support, and make it possible to toggle the emulation on and off while the emulator is running. Currently, fMSX needs to be explicitly compiled with support for the two, and there’s no way to turn any of them off.

Longer-term plans are to implement proper 512-column display for screens 6, 7 and 80-column text mode (the current version simply renders every other column). Plans are also in place to implement FDD (floppy disk drive) and keyboard (CAPSlock, etc…) activity indicators.

Of course, the ultimate plan would be to add adhoc wifi support to the emulator (as well as all the other emulators). Unfortunately, this is currently impossible, as I only have one system.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 15:21 and is filed under fMSX, Update. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Future of fMSX”

  1. Dazman off DCEMU says:
    October 28, 2007 at 00:28

    I love all your Emu’s, They work greta, very fast and all uniform. Me being a fuss pot this is very important.

    Any chance you could port the great Amstard CPC464, as zx81 as made one but I love your menu system and I am not fussed on zx81 menu.

    Regards and thank for all the greta emus.
    Darren (Dazman)

    P.S. VIC20 was my fav followed by Amstrad

  2. uberjack says:
    October 28, 2007 at 10:41

    No promises, but sure, I’ll check it out :)

  3. 0xFF » Blog Archive » fMSX is updated to version 3.4.5 says:
    November 5, 2007 at 03:17

    [...] 3.4.5 of fMSX is out – it addresses most of the features mentioned in the Future of fMSX post. Here’s the complete list of [...]