[openMSX-user] Re: openMsx

[Manuel B. <ma...@ms...>]

Benoît Delvaux wrote:
> Hello !
> 
> My openMSX page will be updated this week-end.

Great!

> Before to make that, I must ask you three questions :

OK!

> - openMSX supports .cas and .wav formats, but it seems that the tape 
> device is not yet created. Is it correct ? I've only seen a patch of the 
> Bios Rom in the examples, but no tape device ...

For .wav files, all you need is a cassetteport:
   <config id="CassettePort">
   </config>

For .cas files, you need TapePatch to let it work. So, you can't use it 
with the default machines that come with openMSX.

> - in the actual form of openMSX, it's not possible to create a general 
> Turbo-R configuration, it must be ST or GT with launching of the 
> firmware, because openMSX always needs the firmware rom with the 
> integrated SRAM ... NLMSX has choosen an other option, it implementes a 
> SRAM without the firmware ... Could this option be created in openMSX ?

Why would you want that? What kind of SRAM do you need?

> - about the PrtScrn touch : by default, under Windows, this touch allows 
> you to make a screenshot that you can use directly in a graphic tool 
> (it's a single screenshot, not a multiple screenshot option) ; in 
> version O.2.1 of openMSX for Windows, the full screen option was not 
> linked to this touch, and that why I could make screenshots with openMSX 
> ... ;
> in version 0.3.1 of openMSX for Windows, the full screen option works 
> with PrtScrn, but goodbye to the screenshots ... So can I suggest that 
> the full screen option could be linked to another touch ? Without this 

Yes, you can change the key bindings in your settings.xml. Full screen 
is now configured as follows:
     <parameter>bind print toggle fullscreen</parameter>

I think that the screenshot stuff is not really an openMSX feature, but 
a general Windows feature. Try using CTRL-PrtScr or so.

> modification, I think that version 0.2.1 is still interesting, except 
> for Turbo-R emulation (almost perfect in version 0.3.1, including PCM 
> !!! Effectively, the Swiss demo runs very good ! .... I'm very curious 

Yes, it runs almost correctly!

> for next version, with Moonsound emulation)

I hope we release this next month.

By the way, you can ask this kind of questions also in our users mailing 
list: ope...@li.... I'm Cc:'ing to it now.

-- 
Grtjs, Manuel

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