Release

MSXgl 1.3.0

Majors updates

• New modules:
  • Disk_Save: Save to disk from a ROM application (for saving game data or use with a in-game editor)
  • WaveGame: Play high-quality wave file from application using a MSX Pico+ feature
  • Lightgun: Handle MSX lightguns (ASCII Plus-X Terminator and Gun-Stick)
  • Sequence: Can be use to create interactive movie or point&click type games
• Redesign of the Pawn module, which handles animated objects (such as characters), with optimizations and new features
  • Ability to load sprite patterns into VRAM on the fly (removing the animation frame limit)
  • Ability to enable real-time special effects on sprites (flip and rotation)

  Note: To convert old project to use this new module, follow the conversion guide

• You can now create 'library' project to build code to be used in different project
• Several bug fixes (thanks to the MSXgl users) and optimizations
• Big cleanup in source code standardization

= Library

• [Arkos] Small optimization in playback function
• [ayFX] Made the module compatible with default PSG register buffer (to use with VGM and lVGM)
• [BIOS] Small optimization in Bios_InterSlotRead()
• [Core] Reactivated warnings #283 "function declarator with no prototype" and #59 "function must return value"
• [Core] Reserved entries for MSX2++ and MSX turbo R+
• [DOS] Added new features: error handler for MSX1, delete file (FCB), get free space, BIOS routine access (interslot read/write/call)
• [Disk_Save] Added new module to handle save to disk from a ROM application (for saving game data or use with a in-game editor)
• [Game/State] Moved Game module to Game/State
• [Game/State] Added game data getter functions
• [Game/State] Optimized in size and performance
• [Game/State] Fixed Game module synchronization
• [Game/Pawn] Moved Game_Pawn module to Game/Pawn
• [Game/Pawn] Added new feature: realtime sprite pattern loading, sprite FX, force current action, force Pawn update and data getter
• [Game/Pawn] Added PAWN_UNIT options and allowed Pawn position to be fixed-point 16-bit
• [Game/Menu] Moved Game_Menu module to Game/Menu
• [Game/Menu] Added get current item function for Menu module
• [Game/Menu] Added new drawing events
• [Game/Menu] Added feature to return to previous page
• [Input] Added INPUT_HOLD_SIGNAL option
• [Input] Added Light gun ID
• [LightGun] Added a module to handle light gun and a sample program (s_lgun)
• [MSX-Audio][MSX-Music] Fixed FM music mute functions
• [MSX-Music] Added function to get detected FM cartridge slot ID
• [Print] Added helper function to get/set pattern offset
• [Print] Fixed X/Y coordinate unit
• [Print] Added new inline helper functions to draw at a given position
• [Sequence] Added new Sequencer module to use in interactive movie
• [System] Added target independant functions to get MSX and BASIC version (from BIOS)
• [System] Fixed GET_TARGET_ISR flag value
• [V9] Fixed V9_SetSpriteDisableP1
• [VDP] Fixed stack adjustment for VDP_Peek_128K() function and optimized VDP_SetBlinkTile()
• [VDP] Added wrapper function for setting backdrop color
• [WaveGame] Added a new module to handle WaveGame device of the MSX Pico/Pico+

• [Example] Moved example game into a separate GitHub project (Peng Pong)
• [Doc] Improved source code documentation
• Cleaned inline assembler function for return value
• Cleaned macro parameters and fixed parameter precedence
• Fixed many typos
• Standardization of spaces after if/for/while/switch functions and defines
• Standardization of structure definition

= Build tool

• [Build tool] Added new target "C library" and option to add additionnal library to a project
• [Build Tool] Added support for 16 KB ROM naming for RISKY MSX
• [Build tool] Fixed emulator launch method for Linux & MacOS
• [Build tool] Fixed folder creation order

= MSX Tools Kit

• [MSXtk] Fixed help message displaying an error message ; Harmonized if/for/while writing convention
• [MSXimg] Added support for partial custom palette (a given number of color starting at a given index)

Link: https://github.com/aoineko-fr/MSXgl/releases/tag/v1.3.0