.Markku Reunanen.

Faster openMSX boot

April 4th, 2013

Thanks to Nyyrikki, MSX1 developers can now save time when debugging their code with openMSX. He modified the original ROM so that it will skip the boot logo and the memory test. To make it work with openMSX I put together a hardware description file for a machine called msxfast. The files:

• MSXFAST.rom – goes under the systemroms directory
• hardwareconfig.xml – create a folder called msxfast in the machines directory and put it there

Less waiting, more programming – starting a .com program from autoexec.bat is now full five seconds faster! Originally, it took 12 seconds to get there, now only 7.

Filed under: koodi,retro,softat