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Release Notes for openMSX 0.10.1 (2014-05-01)

This release fixes mostly bugs we introduced with 0.10.0 or were already present for a bit longer... sorry for those, but most should be fixed now :) There are also some small but nice additions...

Here's the list with all highlights:

MSX device support:

fixed bug in YM2413 (FMPAC), that was audible in BPS Tetris
added Sharp/Epcom HB-4000 80 column cartridge extension

New or improved emulator features:

extended save_msx_screen script to take VDP(24) into acount
fixed crash on Visual Studio build when using wav files (e.g. in the cassetteplayer)
fixed crash on 32-bit Visual Studio build when recording videos without the -doublesize option
fixed crash on 32-bit Visual Studio build when using scale_factor 3 and SDL renderer
fixed waves shown upside-down in the SCC Viewer OSD widget
fixed crash when loading a savestate that has JoyTap plugged in
performance improvements:
- several improvements that result in shorter start up time
- fixed reverse-performance when using hard disks
fixed handling of corrupt hardware configuration XML file
fixed crash when MSX with TC8566AF FDC (e.g. turboR) crashed
fixed possible hang up when reversing with harddisks
fixed Tcl error when changing horizontal stretch in OSD menu
fixed displaying of error messages on OSD
Mac OS X MIDI support:
- fixed MIDI output on Mac OS X (was not working for some applications)
- added support for running status
- added support for system realtime messages
- added support for MIDI in
fixed issues with on-screen-keyboard on Android 4.4
added default keybindings for controllers targeted at gaming
added mapping of B-control button to press CTRL or SHIFT in OSD keyboard
added fine grained control in which slots carts and extensions will end up
added support for single sided disk drives for dir-as-disk
added support for hard disk images to the OSD menu
added warning if ROM images with larger size than supported on real Konami and Konami SCC mappers are used

Build system, packaging, documentation:

updated Windows build to Visual Studio 2013
made compilation faster by removing more than 250 unnecessary includes
even more use of C++11 features
upgraded Tcl to 8.5.15
added build support for 64-bit ARM
added 256x256 pixel openMSX logo image and use it e.g. for Mac OS X icon
fixed staticbindist build with more recent clang releases and for Mac OS 10.9 SDK
do not link against libraries in /usr/lib anymore on Mac OS X, only link against frameworks. This enables to compile against the default SDK.

And of course the usual various bug fixes.

In "doc/manual/index.html" you can find a set of HTML manuals for openMSX. Make sure you read this if you haven't used openMSX before, but also to learn more about the new and changed features.

CPU and graphics performance varies a lot, depending on the openMSX settings and the MSX hardware and software you're emulating. Some things run fine on a 200 MHz machine, others are slow on a 2 GHz machine. For performance tuning tips, see the Setup Guide.

openMSX is confirmed to run on the following operating systems: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD; on x86, x86-64, PPC, ARM, MIPS and Sparc CPU's. Running on other operating systems (wherever SDL runs) or CPU's should be possible, but may require some modifications to the build system. If you are compiling on a new platform, please share your experiences (see below for contact info), so we can make openMSX more portable.

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Thanks to all contributors for their feedback, support, bug reports, testing, coding and other help!

Have fun with your emulated MSX! the openMSX developers