Although the MSX was virtually unknown in North America, it had a large following in Europe and Asia. In fact, much of its software base was written by industry giants Namco and Konami--if you are a fan of their earlier games, such as Konami's Gradius or Goonies, or Namco's Dig-Dug, Pac-Man or Galaga, the MSX will be quite a nice find.
 | fMSX 3.0.3. |
| Emulator Enhancer, which adds extra features to fMSX. |
 | fMSX online with Kagi. |
fMSX is a new port of Marat Fayzullin's fMSX, based on the latest source code. This new version requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
 | the home page of fMSX. |
 | to Marat Fayzullin, who wrote fMSX. |
| to Richard Bannister, who developed the Macintosh port of fMSX. |
| command-line fMSX 2.8 for Mac OS 10.4 and 10.3. |
| command-line fMSX 2.8 for Mac OS 10.3 and 10.2. |
A command-line fMSX port for Mac OS X by Koichi Nishida.
| The fMSX for Mac OS X command-line hompage. |
| fMSX 1.5.2 Plus. |
| fMSX online with Kagi. |
This is an older port of fMSX which is designed for classic Mac OS.
| the Japanese version of fMSX 1.5.2 Plus. Due to the remote loading policy of Tripod, INC - you will need to copy and paste this link into your browser's Address bar to download this file. |
 | of Athletic Land. |
| of MSX BASIC. |
| the fMSX Home Page. |
| to Marat Fayzullin, author of fMSX. |
| to John Stiles, who created the Macintosh port of fMSX. |
| OpenMSX 0.6.2. |
OpenMSX is a new multiplatform MSX emulator that is under active development. This emulator combines open source code from many other projects, and adds new code to to create an accurate MSX emulator. The aim of this project is to create a feature-complete and accurate emulator for the MSX systems.
| NekoLauncher - openMSX 0.2 - a front end for OpenMSX. |
| the OpenMSX home page. |
| the NekoLauncher home page. |
| the source code for OpenMSX 0.6.2. |
| freeM 1.1 (in Japanese). |
| the ROMs necessary to use freeM. |
freeM is an emulator project combining much of fMSX and Murakami Reki's fMSX98. It supports MSX2, PSG and SCC sound, Mega-ROMs, Kanji, and fMSX disk images. This project is off to a fantastic start.
Make sure you download the ROM images--if you don't place these in the same folder as freeM, the emulator will not be able to start.
| the freeM home page. |
| to Root (Nemoto), author of freeM. |
| Zodiac 0.8.1 for Mac OS X. |
| Zodiac 0.8.1 for classic Mac OS. |
Zodiac is an open-source MSX emulator for classic Mac OS and Mac OS X. It's based on a UNIX program that uses SDL, so there is not much in the way of a Mac OS GUI, but the emulator does appear to work properly. Unfortunately, most of the documentation is written in Japanese.
| the Zodiac home page. (Japanese) |
| the Zodiac page on SourceForge. |
| Sasaki "eruchan" Shunsuke, author of Zodiac. |
| Lucas Newman, author of Zodiac for Mac OS X. |
| MSX ROM Info. |
| the Komkon archives, where you can find tons of MSX software available for download. |
| the MSX Disk Converter 1.2 tool. |
If you have MSX software on diskette, you can use it on fMSX. This program can convert a disk image from Apple's DiskCopy software, ShrinkWrap, or DDI format.
