[openMSX-devel] Standard for MSX emulator save states

[Maarten t. H. <mt...@st...>]

Hi,

Today at the Oss fair I met Frits Hilderink, author of NLMSX. He proposed to 
create a standard for MSX emulator save states, so that save states can be 
exchanged between different emulators.

Different MSX emulators are different internally, but what they have in 
common is that they emulate MSX machines. For a save state standard to work, 
it has to express the state of the MSX (the common part), not the state of 
the emulator (the different part).

Since NLMSX already has working save state support and we're just starting on 
that in openMSX, it would be interesting to know how the current NLMSX system 
works. Frits, could summarize it for us? Are there any advantages or 
disadvantages to the current implementation?

Bye,
		Maarten