P88

Easy P88SR launcher

'P88SR' is a nice PC-8801 emulator for PC-98 dos system, but it's not so simple to run it.
You have to merge multiple *.D88 disk image files into one file, or need to add whole D88 file names by one-line parameter behind the command.
For example, you have to type like this:

'P88SR.EXE /l /S DISK1.D88 DISK2.D88 DISK3.D88 DISK4.D88 DISK5.D88 DISK6.D88'

Yeah, it's so foolish.
I really didn't want to do such a thing, so I thought and found a solution.
No image mergement needed, and no long filename parameter needed too.

Try and enjoy!

Usage

1. Make a folder at where you want and just put P88.exe file into it. ex) 'B:\D88DISKN\P88.exe'
2. Set D88DISKN folder in your path from AUTOEXEC.BAT. ex) 'path=B:;B:\D88DISKN;'
3. Reboot your PC-98 once to make your path setting enable.
4. Go to the directory including D88 files what you want play.
5. Type 'D88' to execute. It will start to search *.D88 files in your current folder.
   If the searching is done, it will make one-line parameter using all disk filename.
   It using just DOS filename by NAME order. If you want to change the order of disks, just rename them.
6. You can add P88SR's option parameters behind 'P88.exe'.
   'P88 /l' will execute 'P88SR /l 1.D88 2.D88...'.
7. You can add '#n' option parameter behind 'P88.exe' to set a specific disk on the first disk drive.
   Some games shows different result by booting with 2nd/3rd... disk. You can do such a thing with using '#n'.
   'n' means 'n'th disk from the NAME order of disks.
   'P88 /l #3' will execute 'P88SR /l 3.D88 1.D88 2.D88...'.

Copyright

I used ChatGPT for entire code of this.
I didn't programmed at all for this program, I just explained my idea and ordered to code it.
So I don't want to tell my copyright strongly. Just enjoy, fork and enhance it if you want :)