openMSX Manuals
The openMSX documentation is split into a number of separate documents,
each with their own purpose and intended audience.
- Compilation Guide
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This guide describes how you can get the openMSX sources and compile them.
If you downloaded a binary release, you can skip this.
- Setup Guide
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This guide describes how you can configure openMSX
to emulate actual MSX machines.
It also describes how you can have openMSX start up
with your personal settings,
how you can configure openMSX and your system for optimal performance
and several other configuration related topics.
- User's Manual
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This manual describes all the things you can do with openMSX
once it is fully running.
- FAQ
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Answers some frequently asked questions. Of course you shouldn't have any, after reading the manuals...
- Console Command Reference
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An overview of all commands and settings that can be used from the openMSX
built in console. Check this if you want to know exactly how to control
openMSX. If you can't find a feature in the GUI, it may not mean it's not there
at all: perhaps we didn't have the GUI support it yet and is only be available
via the console.
- Using Diskmanipulator
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The
diskmanipulator command is so powerful that we made a separate
manual for it. Use it to create (hard)disk images, import files to them, export
files from them, etc. However, using it via the GUI is probably easier, you can find it under .
- Controlling openMSX from External Applications
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This is a guide for application developers who want to control openMSX from
their own programs. Very useful if you're planning to make a launcher, GUI,
debugger or another kind of external program that needs to control openMSX.
There is additional documentation for (would-be) developers in the doc directory in the openMSX code tree.
To the
openMSX Home Page.