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 2.7.3. |
| 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 10.2 or later.
 | the home page of fMSX. |
 | to Marat Fayzullin, who wrote fMSX. |
| to Richard Bannister, who developed the Macintosh port of fMSX. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| the Zodiac for Mac OS X home page. |
| 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.
