[MSX] RuMSX v8.20

Dungeon Master

Changes from RuMSX V0.81 to V0.82

Important: RuMSX v0.41 has a new installer! Therefore it is required to uninstall an older version of RuMSX before installing the new version.
You can uninstall RuMSX through the Control-Panel. Select "Software" and "RuMSX" to uninstall.

• Improved Epson printer emulation. Chakkari Copy can now print on emulated Epson JP-80 and SP-80 printers.
• SRAM of "Koei" and "ASCII/8k" cartridges was not saved in SaveState file.
• Added "Hydlide 2" ROM-type and ROM-database entry.
• Internal build error in V0.81 may have caused load-errors of resource libraries (e.g. Spanish translation).
• Missing Control-Panel label in Chinese translation.
• Minor updates in Help (Error-codes, CALL BC)
• MSX Control-Panel activation mistakenly paused RuMSX if "Save CPU" option was enabled.
• Added "Printer form feed" command in menu, to flush pending print-pages without need to change the printer or close RuMSX.
• Added PI-40 (color)printer emulation for use with "Game Master" and "Chakkari Copy".
• Improved rendering-speed of printed PDF documents.
  Note: "Microsoft Print to PDF" should prefered to "FreePDF", because FreePDF reports a too small printing area (this is why pages are printed smaller than on real printers).
• Fixed MSX2+ SoftBoot (includes unpatch of MSX2PEXT.ROM)
• Fixed help for "Chakkari Copy" CALL statements: BPRINT, PAUSE, SCHANGE
• Added exclusive command-line parameters BoostCount and BoostSeconds to temporary boost the MSX startup process.
  Examples: /BoostSeconds:5 or /BoostCount:250
• Added documentation of MSX TAPE I/O, thanks to Jose Manuel
• Bugfixes and improvements in "MSX-host demo.dsk"
• Improved MSX-HOST interface:
  Interface version 1.1 now supports profiling and shutdown.
  Full featuring ROM is the MSX-HOST.ROM version 1.2
  See "Interface-ROM for the host operating-system" in Help for more information.
• Known issue: Hires-timer is not 100% exact

Nightshade (Ultimate Play the Game, Dec, 1985)

Changes from RuMSX V0.83 to V0.84 13/07/2022

Please note: RuMSX v0.41 has a new installer! Therefore it is required to uninstall a version prior RuMSX v0.41 before installing the new version.
You can uninstall RuMSX through the Control-Panel. Select "Software" and "RuMSX" to uninstall.

• Background color 0 on MSX1 was mistakenly adjusted for (unavailable) superimpose-mode.
• CAS: Debug output improved.
• Fixed ROM-Type detection for ROMs < 64KB (8K-48K). E.g. "Star Blazer" was recognized as "Chakkari Copy".
• Arabic layout of toolbar and statusbar was incorrect.
• Disk-, Tape- and Rom-Images can now also be changed using drag & drop, in the "Change Media" dialog tabs.
• Added write-byte command to debugger (for cheat, ...).
• Fixed POINT operation in V9938 specific screen modes. (returned color was previously always 0).
• Extended FullScreen-Zoom modes with "stretch".
• Added a "Edit" -> "Paste" function for text.
  Because "Edit" uses the shortcut "E" the "Emulation" menu now uses the shortcut "M". Paste is usually available, except in the following cases:
  • RuMSX is paused (e.g. for debugging).
  • The clipboard does not contain text.
  • Paste of large content is still in progress - or a program (e.g. a game) does not process the pasted text.
  • The MSX keyboard-buffer is invalid (e.g. during boot or corrupted by some programs).
• Video Computer did not display the error for the "Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)" driver.
• SET SCREEN and SET BEEP documentation was missing in help index (could only be found in search tab).
• Optimization of internal debugger (write to file).

Changes from RuMSX V0.82 to V0.83

• HALTED RuMSX instances did not immediately stop, if termination was attempted by using Windows TaskBar.
• Accessing missing A: or B: drive now results in the correct error "The system cannot find the drive specified."
• Fix for ASCII16-Mapper:
  "Vaxol" writes to invalid memory locations, which are now excluded.
• Added new "ASCII MegaROM (ASCII/16 KByte) V2" ROM-type.
  Most copies of the "Andorogynus" ROM are using the ASCII/16K-mapper.
  But a few copy copies require this special ROM-type, with switching address &H8000.
• Added new "ObsoNET" ROM-type (experimental)
• TMS9918A EC bit was mistakenly ignored (MSX1 could not shift sprites 32 pixels to the left)
  (e.g. affected "Actman" in MSX1-mode) z.B. affected "Actman" in MSX1-mode) e.g. affected "Actman" in MSX1-mode)
• Fixed incorrect debug-message "Virtual error reading drive", even if there was no read-error (but an error-file is present)
• VDP IE1 interrupt-flag is reset on read, even if IE1 is disabled Working (again): F-Nano 2, The Haunted Demo, ...
  (Bug was new since RuMSX v0.41)
• YM3802 operations always wrote debug-output to the console. (Fix improves performance of MIDI commands)
• Philips Music Composer was frozen in main-menu, due to missing ADPCM-interrupt.
• Added experimental support for extended DSK file format
  (using 128 Byte header and additional ending-block, often used in games from www.msxgamesbox.com)
• Improved support for DDI-images (now more DDI file-formats are supported)
• Fixed SCC+ ROM/RAM mapper.
• Fixed "Tape", "A:" and "B:" buttons:
  Incorrect Tab was selected if number of disk-drives was not 2. Example, if a 2nd DISK.ROM was mounted.
• Improved autodetect for many classic Konami games with SCC/SCC+ with size of 40KB
  (e.g. Antarctic Adventure SCC/SCC+)
• Improved autodetect for Disk-To-ROM games with size of 48KB
• (e.g. Confused?, Donkey Kong, Spy Vs Spy II)
• Fixed autodetect of Zoids [ASCII/16 KByte, switch address $77F8]
• Extended ROM-Database:
  • Alien Syndrome [ASCII/16 KByte]
  • Andorogynus [ASCII MegaROM (ASCII/16 KByte) V2]
  • Harry Fox MSX Special [Hydlide 2]
  • Harry Fox Yki No Maoh [Snow Demon King + patched ASCII/16 KByte]
• Improved autodect for some versions of the following ROMs:
  • Aliens 2 (Zemina)
  • Barbarian
  • Bat Man
  • Darwin 4078
  • Druid
  • Fishing Freak
  • Humphrey
  • Mon Mon Monster
  • ObsoNET (experimental)
  • Strategic Mars
  • Syougun
  • XYZ / Zukkoke Yajikita Onmitsudoutyuu
• Added experimental Dir-as-Disk feature (for MSX-DOS 1). Do not (yet) use together with SCSI or IDE controllers.
• When restoring a save-state "Sprites disabled" mode was sometimes not restored.
• When switching to MSX1 configuration sprites were sometimes permanently invisible.
• Pending SCSI configuration changes were not fully applied on reboot.
• Coincidence of transparent sprites was mistakenly detected.
  "Labirint" is now working (without cheat).
• Fixed bug in debug-log of memory mapper, sometimes refering to the wrong slot.