sutorippu wrote:
Which hex editor do you recommend? I'm looking into HxD right now.
I'm about a half of a first-year student of Japanese, so all that kanji makes my head bleed.
Edit: As it turns out, one of the tape images said to have a hidden game wasn't even for PC-88, but for the PC-6000. But I'll be thumbing through the .t88s we have all the same.
1. If you put that Manuke Station T88 Format page through Google Translate, it is fairly comprehensible.
2. It seems you are on the right track, thumbing through the files in hex, as one's brain recognizes changes in what is displaying in a file, and you can look see when it does change. I figure most file names are going to be in "alphabet", or roman characters, so you can enter the names in load commands more easily. ( Long time since I loaded tape images, so excuse any stupidity ).
3. HxD looks very good, and fancy. I might give it a go myself. I use a very old very simple one copyright 1997 - hedit - purely out of habit since last century LOL!, but it is not fancy in any way, so I can't really recommend it.
HxD looks great.
4. I seem to recall ( I don't really have time to check ) that some formats of the load commands will list all files on screen if you don't specify the file name or an incorrect file name - "FOUND PROGA ... FOUND PROGB ...". Maybe I'm wrong - long time ago. Sorry - very rusty on tapes.