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2015-10-28
• 5950
  I'm figuring out how to use the OpenMSX emulator. On Mac OS, I moved the executable and the 'share' directory next to each other and is running the emulator from the command line:

  ./openmsx game.rom

• 5951
  Also on Mac OS, I can press Command-L to execute commands. The emulator crashed when I tried to go to fullscreen mode, but this also works:

  set scale_factor 3

• 5952
  Epic intro! And great music.
• 5953
  This is really hard. Also, I need some better key bindings - arrow keys and space are not great.
2015-10-29
• 5954
  OpenMSX saves the executed commands in ~/.openMSX/share/settings.xml.
• 5955
  Got the score 65200 in OpenMSX. Completed level 1.
• 5958
  Example joystick mapping:

  '~/.openMSX/share/settings.xml' contains (less-than and greater-than replaced by square brackets):
    [settings]
      ...
      [setting id=scale_factor]3[/setting]
      [setting id=keyjoystick1.up]s[/setting]
      [setting id=keyjoystick1.down]d[/setting]
      [setting id=keyjoystick1.left]a[/setting]
      [setting id=keyjoystick1.right]f[/setting]
      [setting id=keyjoystick1.triga]j[/setting]
      [setting id=keyjoystick1.trigb]k[/setting]
    [/settings]
  text file 'plug.script' contains:
    plug joyporta keyjoystick1
  And the emulator is started with this command:
    ./openmsx -script plug.script game.rom
  

• 5959
  Got the score 140600 in OpenMSX. Killed by the level 2 boss.
2015-10-30
• 5960
  You save state with command-s and restore with command-r.
• 5961
  Completed level 2/8.
2015-11-22
• 6020
  Playing in my hotel room in Brighton while visiting Peter, I accidentally destroyed my quicksave by quicksaving in a different game. Now I understand that quicksaves are global in OpenMSX. Entering the console and using 'savestate' and 'loadstate' commands works, though. I played through the first two levels, and then proceeded to complete level 3.