Select "Manual HD", then "search" to gather the correct sector information, then select your partition. Obviously you will need Winimage, but the details on what you need to do to view the contents using DiskExplorer are posted below.
PC98 FDI HOW TO
How to write the image to CF, or view contents?
PC98 FDI SOFTWARE
I created the original version 1.0 image to kickstart the PC-98 hobbyist scene, and allow creative minds to continue to improve upon this image by adding more software and features. I have no idea why this is, but as such, there is a lot of unused space on this image than can be easily formatted and partitioned using FDISK or HDFORMAT. For some reason, my PC98 refuses to format a partition larger than about 450MB. This was created on a real NEC PC-9821Cs2.
PC98 FDI DRIVERS
The goal was to create a compatible and generic image, therefore things like CD-ROM drivers or other specialty drivers are not installed. NEC's version MS-DOS 6.2 is installed, as well as about 12 games.
Version 1.0 was created as a BASELINE IMAGE configured for games. *FILMNT Filer (DOS SHELL) added for easier navigationĪ little about the original V1.0 image this is based on: Give Caius some praise for working hard to improve the V1.0 image! If I get some time soon, I will look into doing this myself again and stand up a WIP PR for comment.Version 1.5 of the PC98 HDD image is now available! Release date: 20 June 2014
PC98 FDI CODE
I looked into adding it to the code myself a few months ago, but didn't get around to it and now I've forgotten exactly what to do. It seems to work really well with the FlashFloppy firmware on my 9821AP2, but it would be nice if I didn't have to convert it myself. I have only ever seen HDM format in circulation, however, so I wrote this conversion code: įDI is basically the HDM raw image, with a 4096-byte header glued onto the front of it. DDB -> 2DD/300rpm -> 256 bytes * 16 sectors * 2 surfaces * 80 cyls.First track single-density (128-bytes), latter tracks 256 byte double density I managed to work out from reading Japanese PC98 enthusiast sites that BKDSK supports creating images in these "formats," identified by their extensions: MS-DOS disk formats: BKDSK seems to be an image dumper/writer that generates raw images, and the format is popular with emulators. FF has FDI support for the PC98 right now, which works great, but there are a lot of BKDSK-style disk images in circulation (e.g.
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