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'''blueMSX''' is a portable [[open source]] [[MSX]] [[emulator]] that uses an emulation model to achieve the highest level of accuracy possible. It is available for the [[Microsoft Windows]] operating system and is ported to multiple other systems. It has been translated into 14 different languages. blueMSX includes a powerful debugger with support for several assembly formats and a machine configuration editor that allows advanced users to set up practically any MSX computer system ever made.
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In August 2004 blueMSX became the first MSX emulator to support skins.
In November 2004, blueMSX was finally 100% free of fMSX code. The November release was also a big milestone since it brought support for the Turbo-R, the last MSX produced. On top of that, it was the first release that included emulation for the [[ColecoVision emulators|ColecoVision]] and the [[Spectravideo]] [[SV-328]].
Since the November 2004 milestone, developer focus has been on improving the user interface and emulation accuracy, as well as extending the emulation to include more exotic devices such as the Konami Keyboard Master, an unreleased speech synthesis ROM.
The emulation core was extended to support any Z80 based computer systems and is now supporting multiple systems, such as [[SG-1000]], [[Spectravideo]], and [[ColecoVision]].
Later additions to the emulation include support for digitizers, IDE and SCSI hard drives, and emulation of the extensions in the [Yamaha CX5-M] music computer.
A big effort to make the emulator portable to other platforms started in 2007 and since then the emulator has been ported to multiple other systems. The current architecture of the emulator makes it easy to compile to any system with a c compiler and does not depend on any graphics, audio, or user input libraries.
Most hardware released for the MSX system is emulated and the emulator includes a configuration editor to mimic real MSX systems by choosing components such as floppy drives, memory, sound chips and video chips. Several pre-configured machines are available for users that don't want to build their own machines.
Common emulator features are supported, like screen shots, AVI rendering, and a cheat system. The emulator has a theme based GUI with buttons to control the emulation, a [[virtual keyboard]], and controls to change sound and video settings runtime.
blueMSX is capable of emulating major sound chips including programmable sound generator ([[General Instrument AY-3-8910|AY-3-8910]] [[Texas Instruments SN76489|SN76489]]) [[sound chip]]schips, [[Konami SCC]], [[Moonsound]] ([[Yamaha (manufacturer)|OPL4]]), FM-PAC ([[Yamaha YM2413|YM2413]]), MSX-AUDIO (Y8950 sound chip) and a couple of different PCM devices. The volume and pan of each sound chip can be configured in a basic mixer.
blueMSX simulates six different monitor types, from sharp modern monitors to old TV sets. The emulator has controls for real time modification of gamma, brightness, contrast, saturation and color shifting, and it supports horizontal and vertical stretch, as well as a slider for adaptable scanlines on all monitor modes to make the ratio of the video output match a real system. It also supports multiple video sources, for example an external 80 column card.
