Last Updated on: 23rd December 2023, 01:40 pm
Web site: fms.komkon.org/fMSX/
Category: Emulators
Platform: Linux, Windows, Android
License: unknown (source code available)
Interface: GUI
Wikipedia: fMSX
First release: unknown
fMSX – a program that emulates MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ 8bit home computers. It runs MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ software on many different platforms including Windows, Android, Symbian, MacOS, Unix, MSDOS, AmigaOS, etc.
MSX is an old 8bit family of home computers created in 1982 as an attempt to establish a single standard in home computing similar to VHS in video. MSX computers have been popular in Asia (Korea, Japan) and South America (Brazil, Chile) as well as in Europe (Netherlands, France, Spain) and former Soviet Union, although they are virtually unknown in the USA. Although the MSX platform quietly died around 1988, the world got to see MSX2, MSX2+, and TurboR extensions of the MSX platform.
It has been started developing fMSX in 1993 when there were only two other MSX emulators available, both exclusively for MSDOS. From the very beginning, the author developed fMSX as a portable program able to run on many different computers. The initial development, for example, was done on DEC Alpha workstations running Unix. Since then, fMSX has seen quite a lot of updates and been ported to many systems. It is still being developed, although not as actively as before because most features are pretty much complete now.
fMSX source code is open for everyone to see but it is not in public domain. The fMSX source code is written in portable C and will work on any sufficiently fast computing platform, be it a personal computer, a videogame console, a PDA, a cell phone, a set-top box, a DVD or MP3 player, or even a digital camera. Some examples of fMSX being ported to various platforms can be found below on this page.