openMSX is an open source emulator of the MSX home computer system.
By default, it comes with a minimal firmware rom, known as c-bios, which enables you to run most cartridge based MSX games.
In order to run such a game, you can copy a dump of the cartridge onto the storage memory of your Android device and then insert the so-called ROM into the virtual cartridge slot of the emulator using the on-screen menu that you can open with the standard Android menu key.
You can also install the firmware of your real MSX into openMSX. See
http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/manual/setup.html for further details. This enables you to play around with MSX Basic and all other features provided by the standard MSX firmware.
Furthermore, if you are a power user, you may want to read the user manual for an overview of the advanced features of openMSX: http://openmsx.org/manual/user.html
openMSX 0.15.0—Sinterklaasphemy—is a release with many changes! This time the major enhancements are support for ColecoVision (including Super Game Module and MegaCart mapper), Musical Memory Mapper and Carnivore 2. And we have fixed a lot of long-standing OPL4 emulation issues, thanks to Valley Bell. Furthermore, we overhauled the Android port, you'll mostly notice the scale factor 2 there. And several other issues were fixed. Please read the release notes for more details
openMSX 0.14.0—Blasphemy— is another mix of some new features and additions and a lot of smaller fixes and improvements. This release adds support for Konami Ultimate Collection and basic emulation for the Spectravideo SVI-318 and SVI-328 pre-MSX computers, increases FDC accuracy in such a way that we think all copy protections (captured in a DMK file) should now run in openMSX.
openMSX 0.13.0 —Black Cat —contains several bug fixes and also has some nice additions and improvements to enjoy.The most important improvements are:- Much better support for VDP I/O delay in turbo machines (fixing graphics issues due to too fast VDP access there)- More accurate MSX1 color palette- Progress reporting for long operationsSee release note for more details: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openMSX/openMSX/RELEASE_0_13_0/doc/release-notes.txt
