unofficial openMSX builds will be added, FiXato welcomed

[PMJPlay]

During my first day of starting the IRC Channel for our lovely site, I was join by te_lanus our local ROM God and also by a guy named FiXato who has come forward and told us he has been running a site where him and his friends have been compiling unofficial builds of the great MSX emulator openMSX. SO with my great wisdom, I have decided to give them our support and host their builds in our database here I also welcome FiXato and his friends to our lovely little community here

Their official site for their builds is here

[Hot Trout]

Sounds like you had a good 1st day at IRC, I will have to download the client today and get connected. Good work PMJP

[FiXato]

Thanks for the warm welcome.
I've grown up with an MSX2 computer and it's what got me into programming (even though I never wrote much useful on the MSX itself; I was too busy playing games such as Nemesis 3 and Pumpkin Adventure).
Though I don't really do much with MSX anymore at the moment, I still try to help out the openMSX guys by building and testing their Mac OS X releases and offering a space for the 'daily' builds.

I read on IRC that you were looking for a list of changes since the official 0.8.2 release PMJP? I've compiled a list from the SVN logs: http://openmsx.fixato.net/0_8_2-r12364-12710.log
It doesn't really give a clear overview of what has changed, but it does contain all the (perhaps too technical) commit messages since the 0.8.2 release up till the latest (revision 12710) at the time of writing.

For automatically building the Mac OS X builds I wrote a a Ruby gem, openMSX-Builder: https://github.com/FiXato/openMSX-builder
It supports updating and building openMSX from the official SVN repository for PPC, x86 and x86_64 Mac OS X systems.
Every published build automatically gets reported via https://twitter.com/openmsx_builder.
The Windows 32-bit and 64-bit builds are automatically compiled and uploaded by Vampier (known for his many MSX longplay videos) and once my system detects he has a new version uploaded, it automatically publishes it on the website and sends out a tweet through the same Twitter account.

Development on the emulator is still quite active, so old builds (usually those who are 100 or more revisions behind) on the openMSX.FiXato.net page tend to get pruned every now and then though.

[Dragon Mech]

what versions of windows OS can this emulator run on?

[FiXato]

I'll have to get back to you on that. I know it runs fine on XP, XP Pro 64, Vista and W7, but I've heard it doesn't run on 2000, and need to verify that.