List of MSX emulators

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fMSX is a portable MSX emulator written by Marat Fayzullin, one of the pioneers of modern computer emulation. It is one of the earliest MSX emulators, and is also the most ported. fMSX is written in C with emphasis on portability. fMSX was a very influential and a number of emulators started as...

openMSX is an open source MSX emulator which is free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, available under the GNU General Public License.For copyright reasons the emulator cannot be distributed with original BIOS ROM images...

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BrMSX was an MSX emulator for DOS, written by Ricardo Bittencourt. It was first released in 1997, at that time being regarded as the fastest, most accurate MSX emulator.-History:...

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fMSX is a portable MSX emulator written by Marat Fayzullin, one of the pioneers of modern computer emulation. It is one of the earliest MSX emulators, and is also the most ported. fMSX is written in C with emphasis on portability. fMSX was a very influential and a number of emulators started as...

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