RuMSX 0.31

Earlier this month two major updates of blueMSX and openMSX were released. Today, Rudolf Lechleitner released a new version of RuMSX. In the new release, the following changes were made:

• Added SCSI-Support for the WD33C93A controller, which enables use of HSH and NOVAXIS ROMs with harddisk-images (with NOVAXIS CD-ROM ISO-images can be accessed too)
• Support for multiple Disk-ROMs added (now up to 8 floppy-drives can be used, in theory)
• Screen 8 colors have been fixed, display is now much brighter (4 grey tones are available too)
• Fixed bug which caused SaveState files with more than 1 ROM-cartridge to be saved and loaded improperly
• Fixed potential crashes in highres-modes when the Adjust-register uses excessive values
• The adjust-register Y value is ignored for now (fixes a bug causing the NOVAXIS NFDISK-utility does to crash if running in high-resolution mode)
• HtmlHelp updated: Added SCREEN 9 information
• Added extensions to the MSX-Configuration dialog ((changed TR-DefaultConfig, implemented missing features, ...)
• Added read-only support for the personal folder "My MSX\MSX computers\RuMSX configurations"
• MSXDOS1 boot-sector has been slightly modified (removed random bytes to get compact code+data)
• Updated MSX-locale and initial VDP-frequency of the CBIOS configurations according to the design-specifications
• Made a few improvements in ROM-type detection
• Language selection now allows to include value-formatting too
• Added option to decrease CPU-load while running at same speed
• Added "inactive mode" option in case RuMSX is running in background
• Added experimental emulation of Epson printers, "Print-X-press" is at least partially working now
• Fixed a bug in the "Generic 8KB ROM mapper", which prevented Parodius from being played until the end
• ROM\SCCPLUS.TXT added. This file describes the "SCC+ dummy" ROM-image format and handling
• Some more minor updates...

A new RuMSX review for the MSX Emulator Comparison will be published in the relatively near future, together with updated reviews of blueMSX and openMSX.

Relevant link: Rudolf Lechleitner's website