fMSX 3.5 Ported to Maemo
 

I have just done a Maemo port of fMSX, my MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ emulator. You can find it at

http://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/

fMSX-Maemo is an early beta. Give it a try and tell me what you think. You will probably need to have an N810 or an N800 with Bluetooth keyboard to use it though.

PS: Attached installable .deb file to this post.

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Will do :)

Thanks Marat!

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Wow a real EMU coder! Check his site out.

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haha i wub u, i remember posting ur fmsx 4 uiq 3 :D

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Hi Marat, pleased to meet you here :) Want to thank you for your great emulators that I've used on my PocketPC long ago :)

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That would be me and Aaron Oneal. Still hoping Aaron will find time to update his MorphGear package.

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Yep. It has no updates for almost two years... I was playing MG 2.4 on my Rover P3+ loooong time ago :) Maybe Aaron can release some sources (of freeware emulators for example) and the community will gladly take it for developing :)

Re: fMSX 3.5 Ported to Maemo
 

I think his framework code is freely available from www.spicypixel.com.

I have been thinking of porting the latest versions of my emulators to WinMobile, but I have neither WinMobile hardware nor time to do the porting.

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here's a cool site that could come in handy for all you fmsx fans.....
http://www.msxarchive.nl/

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OK, I've tried a couple of games. Really nice to see them again!
Unfortunately the sound on the games I tried is not played correctly on my n810, it seemed out of sync.
Maybe the n810 can not really cope ? This is with both PSG only (Metal Gear) games as with games which use the SCC (e.g. space manbow).

What are your experiences on this?

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It will be 150ms out of sync. It is not a bug: the buffer is needed to prevent jitter and avoid hiccups.

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Does this support bt keyboards?

I ask because I do not have one.

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It should, although I do not have one either. Have been salivating over Apple's BT keyboard yesterday but did not buy it.

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Ok, thanks :)

It's impossible to play MSX without a keyboard 8-) :( and I need some MGS on the move.

fMSX 3.5.3 Released
 

I have just updated fMSX-Maemo to version 3.5.3. This version should be faster, synchronize frame rate better, and use less CPU. Give it a try at

http://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/

or wait until it appears in Extras.

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Big thanks for this port!

One question, how do I input the Function keys via the N810 keyboard?

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This post is just for the subscription I forgot :p

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You do not, unfortunately. Have to use the BT keyboard for now, and even then some F-keys are taken over by Maemo.

I am planning to port virtual keyboard from Symbian port to Maemo.

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Would it be possible to map it to chr+n where n is 1 through 0? The msx only has 10 F keys, so that would work perfectly.

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It may be possible, I have to check if [CHR]+[n] isn't already carrying any useful keycodes. Note that MSX really has 5 F-keys, other 5 are available with the [SHIFT].

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[CHR]+[n] does nothing at the moment so it would be ideal. [CHR]+[n] and [SHIFT]+[CHR]+[n] could work then.