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Hi all,

Announcing here release 0.9.1 of openMSX, combined with the post that we forgot to submit about the 0.9.0 release 6 weeks earlier...

This release improves a lot on accuracy of floppy support, especially by the
introduction of support for the DMK format. This means it should be possible to
run all MSX disk software without patching it.

Furthermore, our efforts to improve performance has some results: start up time
has almost halved on a Dingoo A320!

Here's the list with all highlights for the Dingoo community:

MSX device support:
- Bug fixes:
  - overscan: 512x512 demo by NYYRIKKI and Don't Cock It Up by Matra now work
  - several small issues in existing MSX machine configurations
  - 2nd drive detection on National machines
  - detail in MSX-AUDIO that prevented proper detection in MSX-AUDIO BIOS 1.3
  - fixed crash with fast resampler and 8192 samples
- Accuracy improvements:
  - much improved accuracy for Floppy Drive Controllers (mostly WD2793 and
    alike)
  - added support for delayed motor off for disk drives, as in real machines
    implemented by the CXD1032 chip
  - disk drive rotation is now correct
  - added support for persistency of S1985 back-up RAM
  - added support for specifying the initial content of RAM and VRAM. Fixing
    this for the Philips MSX2's shows why Cas Cremers never noticed a bug in
    Akin, causing white pixels on the screen
  - improved timing of the VDP LINE command (thanks to NYYRIKKI for the ideas)
- Added support for the FDC connection style of the Victor HC-9x
- Added support for several floppy drive extensions: Sanyo MFD-001, Mitsubishi
  ML-30DC/ML-30FD, Talent DPF-550, AVT DPF-550, Philips NMS 1200
- Added Spanish Mitsubishi ML-G1, Spanish Mitsubishi ML-G3, Japanese Sony HB-10,
  Toshiba HX-21, Toshiba HX-22 and Toshiba HX-22I. The latter two have a
  switchable RS-232C interface (use the new toshiba_rs232c_switch setting)

New or improved emulator features:
- OSD menu improvements:
  - list of machines and extensions are now sorted alphabetically
  - file lists are now filtered on extension case insensitively
- Performance improvements:
  - OSD
  - start-up time
  - several scripts
  - improved console rendering speed (uses less CPU)
  - improved Tcl integration
  - speed up low level disk emulation
- Miscellaneous:
  - guess_title script is now a lot better and is used to generate file names
    if no file name was given (e.g. to screenshots)
  - don't print an error when an initial CMOS/SRAM file isn't found
  - enable auto-run for cassettes by default
  - additional files for ROMs (like samples for Playball) can now also be in
    the same directory as the ROM file

Build system, packaging, documentation:
- Upgraded 3rd party libraries
- First step in phasing out the roms/ directories: removed them (including
  SHA1SUMS file which was redundant with the hardwareconfig.xml files) and new
  configs do not use the path with roms/ anymore; use the systemroms pool
  instead

And of course the usual various bug fixes.

Get it here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openmsx/openmsx-0.9.1-dingux-bin.zip or check out website at http://openmsx.sf.net/
This release is for OpenDingux only.

How the heck to I get disk support to work?

How to configure the joystick and keyboard?

Awesome! Thanks! =D

How did you install openMSX exactly?

You only have to move the zip file onto the SD card and then unzip it. Everything will end up in the correct folders automatically.

If that still fails let me know and we'll analyse it in detail.

Same problem here, log show something like

this may incorect ROMmapper types to be used
info: failed to initialize defaut machine:Machine "c-bios_MSX2+"not found
Machines/C-BIOS_MSX2+/hardwareconfig.xml not found in this context

ETC...

Quote from: chiguy1212 on October 19, 2012, 06:11:56 pm

I did exactly what you said.  After adding the link to the emulator, I went to Edit openmsx, I selected display console to On.  I tried to load openMsx, but after the screen went black, it went back to the emulator selection screen.

Problem is likely that something is wrong with your installation indeed. If you get the same output as Coccijoe, openMSX can't find the configuration file of the default MSX machine, which should always work when the installation is normal/successful.

Where exactly did you unzip the zip file?

Can you tell me what you see in the /usr/local/share/openmsx directory?


I'd like to have the exact output of openMSX to analyse this.... (as everything works fine here, of course)

Can you try this:

• Go to local/bin
• Edit openmsx-start.sh
• Comment the line starting with 'exec' (add a # at the start) and uncomment the last line (remove the #).
• Run again
• After it failed again, paste the content of the file  /tmp/openmsx-log.txt here.

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I then turned on select browser, I added the directory. I selected a game, the screen booted, turned black and then returned to the emulator selection screen. 

The rom files I have for MSXI end in .rom and for MSXII end in .mx2.

Should I place them in specific directories, maybe that's the problem?

I'm pretty sure your emulator works and it's my lack of technical skills that's causing the problem 

Best way to run software is to use the built-in menu in openMSX, so all this stuff doesn't matter at all... You shouldn't need all of this.

Hello Manuel,

Thank you for your assistance.

To start, using WinRar, i extracted the file into the local folder, but since it just created the file called "openmsx-0.9.1-dingux-bin" I cut "local" from within the new folder, went back to the root drive, pasted and it merged what was in local.

"Can you tell me what you see in the /usr/local/share/openmsx directory?"

When looking in this folder I see the following folders:

extensions, icons, machines, nettou_yakyuu, playball, scripts, shaders, skins, software, systemroms, unicodemaps.

Then the following files:
init.tcl
settings.xml
softwareb.xml
softwareb1.dtd

"I'd like to have the exact output of openMSX to analyse this.... (as everything works fine here, of course)"

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by comment on the line that starts with 'exec,' but I opened openmsx-start.sh with notepad and saw this:

#!/bin/sh
# $Id: openmsx-start.sh 12279 2011-09-19 15:41:57Z mthuurne $
# Startup script

for openMSX.
# Run this to start openMSX; running the executable directly does not

work.
export OPENMSX_SYSTEM_DATA=/usr/local/share/openmsx
exec

/usr/local/bin/openmsx.dge#exec /usr/local/bin/openmsx.dge &> /tmp/openmsx-log.txt

Except that this was all bunched together.

I ran the program again, saw what Coccijoe saw.  I tried looking for "/tmp/openmsx-log.txt" but I couldn't find it.

This is all I have for now.

Thanks again

Any news?

I tried taking pictures of what my screen says.  This is the best I can do right now



and

Any news??