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cbios(7)

cbios7

Provides open source bios rom files for msx computers

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the C-BIOS rom files.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

C-BIOS is an open source BIOS for MSX computers. C-BIOS can be shipped with MSX emulators so they are usable out-of-the-box.

Details about the BIOS calls available in the ROM files can be found at http://map.tni.nl/ but keep in mind the C-BIOS is work in progress and does not support all BIOS calls yet.

C-BIOS comes in three versions currently. C-BIOS_MSX1 is compatible with MSX1 machines, C-BIOS_MSX2 is compatible with MSX2 machines and C-BIOS_MSX2+ is compatible with MSX2+ machines.

Each version comes in three localisation variants, an international, Japanse (JP) and Brazilian (BR) one.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) to Debian 4.0 (Etch)
  • Debian 3.1 (Sarge)

Authors

This manual page was written by Joost Yervante Damad for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

From cbios 0.29a-1.1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.