openMSX

3rd Party

On this page, you’ll find third-party material related to openMSX. While these resources are not authored or maintained by the openMSX team, they may still offer valuable insights and enhancements for our users. We greatly appreciate the community’s efforts in creating applications and additional documentation around openMSX. Keep up the good work, people, and drop us a line if you have a project you would like to see added here!

Launchers

openMSX Launcher (unsecured link)

An openMSX version of the blueMSX Launcher, mostly targeted at launching games. It supports screenshots for games and a large number of languages. Multiplatform: Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD. Development has stopped and development efforts are now concentrated on Novo Player.

Novo Player (unsecured link)

Novo Player is a new, versatile, multi-platform front-end designed primarily for openMSX and is currently very much under active development. Currently, the latest version is 1.10.1.

NekoLauncher openMSX (unsecured link)

Because the old style Catapult does not run (properly) on Mac, an active Japanese emulator user/programmer wrote an openMSX variant of his NekoLauncher series. It's not only getting more and more advanced, but also seems to be very user friendly.

openMSX Peashooter

For the same reason, Cesco made another launcher for openMSX on OS X. It seemed to be focused mainly on games and features image previews. Unfortunately, the site and download links have disappeared.

Miscellaneous

openMSX Daily Builds

FiXato created a great web site which provides you with daily built binaries of openMSX. Very much recommended if you want to try out development versions of openMSX without compiling them yourself! Currently supporting Windows, macOS, Android and OpenDingux platforms. Unfortunately, the disk space seems to have run full and it no longer hosts recent builds.

OpenMSX Control Plugin for Gedit

Rafael Jannone made an interesting thing: a plugin for Gedit, so that you can easily test your MSX Basic programs in openMSX, while using the Gedit text editor. He wrote a whole load of Python scripts to make this possible. They might be nice to reuse for other apps!