The PC Booter term refers to games or software that used to start without relying on an already installed operating system, usually directly from a floppy at power on. This technique was popular during the 80's. For PCs without a hard drive, this was somewhat convenient as it saved some steps: No need to boot dos first and the change the disk to start the game.
On the other hand, it also made the game a bit more difficult to copy backup it was a form of copy protection and prevented hard drive installation Many games from this era are now available on abandonware sites, but most have been converted to.
COM and. EXE formats for convenience. I acquired a Tandy EX with a single floppy drive and no hard drive. I thought it would be fun to relive the experience of booting the games directly, as I used to do years ago. EXE version of the game. But that would not have been very interesting. Instead, I chose the difficult and very instructive path of creating my own loader and tool to convert.
EXE file to a floppy disk image. This small piece of code often loads a larger program to do the real work, but for booterify, bytes is more than enough to load and run the game.
The loader calls the BIOS interrupt 13h, function 2 in a loop to read floppy sectors to memory. Since sector 0 holds the loader, the game program is divided in blocks of bytes and simply stored from Sector 1 to N according to its total size maximum 64kB at the moment.
Some memory locations in the loader program are automatically patched by the floppy image creation tool: Number of sectors to copy Number of sectors per track depends on the type of floppy [eg: For a k floppy, there are 9 sectors per track] Program entry point offset initial IP for the program ex: For a. COM executables. COM executables are easy.
Only the first two parameters size and sectors per track will vary. The other parameters make. EXE support possible, provided the load module size does not exceed 64Kb. The floppy image creation tool will detect the file format. EXE and take care of complications specific to. EXE files, such as segment relocation. Beware: Be it a. EXE or a. The image creation utility will try to detect byte sequences that look like DOS interrupt calls CD xx sequences and will emit a warning and a hex dump around the call.
Disk creation will not be aborted however. Said byte sequences may appear anywhere, not only in code eg: In data. It is up to you do disassemble your executable or the hex dump to investigate. You can of course just try booting the thing too. As a rule of thumb, if the game has data files, it certainly will not work.
If the file is a single executable, maybe it will work. And if the game was listed somewhere as a PC booter, it is a good sign. The other int 21h services are not implemented and control is immediately returned to the caller via RETI. Options: -h Prints help -c Force input file format as. If 0, no padding. EXE Output file: boot1. It will also automatically boost your PC into gaming mode by disabling background programs, releasing more disk space and updating drivers to date.
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