openMSX 0.8.2

For openMSX 0.8.2, most of the developers' efforts went into fixing bugs and performing small improvements. All this, of course, means that MSX emulation has improved. A summary of all that's new or fixed:

• Improved: accuracy of MSX-MUSIC (Okazaki), Moonsound and Graphics9000
• Added: support for the Laserdisc games Junior High School Mathematics
• Added: support for the mapper types Baby Dinosaur Dooly, Manbow 2 (second release) and Best of Hamaraja Night
• Added: emulation of memory based I/O for MSX RS-232C - enabling emulation of the Sony HBI-232
• Added: Sony HB-F95 and Sony HB-G900P
• Added: support for JoyMega (Megadrive joy pad with six buttons)
• Video improvements: faster laserdisc rendering; added horizontal stretch for SDL renderer
• Sound improvements: blip resampler; sound synchronised to EmuTime; sound driver based on libao-based sound driver added; option added to record channels of all attached sound chips
• Updated all scripts to Tcl 8.5
• Reverse bar improved

The list goes on and on, if you really want all the details, the release notes will be of use. If you encounter any bugs, do let the developers know about it, so they can iron them out. Several options to get in contact are available such as their forum and their IRC channel #openmsx on irc.freenode.net. You're also welcome to come up with feature suggestions and a ROM dump of that extremely rare MSX you have in your basement.

Relevant link: openMSX