The classic status bar displayed at the bottom of the blueMSX window contains six panels that show information about the current state of the emulator.

      

Pane	Description
1	The first pane contains the counter of frames per second
2	The second pane indicates the using of CPU resource by the emulator
3	The third pane shows the current emulation frequency (in percentage since version 2.0)
4	The fourth pane shows the screen mode currently in use. (The shown screen mode is the screen mode of scanline 0, so if an application uses multiple screen modes in the same frame, the information may not be as expected.)
5	The fifth pane shows a diskette or tape icon when loading or saving data from disk in drive A, from disk in drive B or from the cassette.
6	The sixth pane contains 4 leds indicators. One becomes bright if the CAPS key is toggled and one if the KANA key is toggled. The two other ones indicate if the Panasonic front switch is on or if the switch of the Panasonic MSX-AUDIO cartridge is on.

If you have choosen to run the emulator with the DIGIblue SUITE-X theme , then the status bar has first this appearance :

      

This STATUS appearance contains the description of the game or demo currently running (it can be a cartridge, a disk or a cassette).

Below this description, you find different indications about
* the using of CPU resource by the emulator
* the number of frames per second (FPS)
* the screen mode currently in use. (the shown screen mode is the screen mode of scanline 0, so if an application uses multiple screen modes in the same frame, the information may not be as expected)
* the Video Ram size of the emulated machine
* the Main Ram size of the emulated machine
* the mapper type of the current rom game
* the currently emulated machine
* the current emulation frequency (in percentage) that you can change by using the big button

The little button allows to come back to the normal emulation frequency (100 %)

If you click on a button of the right panel, you can change this appearance; in another words, this status-bar is a multi-panels bar !

      

The VIDEO appearance is a deluxe video panel, with all the features of the classic video menu (in Options/Video) and selection of an alternative output connector.
This last feature is yet only useful when using the Spectravideo SVI-328 MKII (choice between the 40-columns TMS9929A videochip and the 80-columns CTRC6845 video chip) or adding a 80 columns graphic card to a MSX1 machine; it will be used in the future for switching between V9938/58 video chip and the V9990 (GFX9000) video chip.

You can also see different bitmaps that change with your monitor settings.

 The CONTROL appearance gives you a virtual keyboard and access to the controls ports 1 and 2.


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