>I can't be sure it's the case here, but many games on floppy disks (for MSX
>systems) don't respect any FAT structure, not directory entries, after all,
>they aren't obliged to... they don't any MSX-DOS function or access method,
>they write their proper access mothod, based on a sector read access to the
>floppy ...
>You can do same if you want, just write some ASM routine for the boot
>sector, and sequnetial access to the sectors...
Correct. Many japanese software of the "good times" (until 1992) uses this
method: disk stations, pink sox, peach up, xak's...
When booting, MSX BIOS reads sector 0 of the disk in drive A in a fixed
memory location, and executes it. Normally, code for loading MSXDOS(2).SYS
and COMMAND(2).COM is placed here, so DOS starts. But you can also put in
this sector code for read other sectors via BIOS routine #0144, so no FAT
nor directory structure is needed.
This is a problem for installing such software in hard disk: you must
convert these disks to disk image files, and if you are lucky (most times
this means: if you have MegaSCSI) you can execute it via special programs.
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Translation: 3.000.000 not found failures continue without being corrected...
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