A bit about CWC and CDV

I could’ve written this post much earlier if not for the pressing need to upgrade OS on my main machine. It took time and it will take even more time to configure it to a more useable state; but I’ve made enough rants about software updates already so back to the original topic. I’ve finally reverse engineered CDV format. While the format itself is quite remarkable, the fact that I had to deal with CauseWay DOS extender packed executable is more important as it offers possibilities to explore even more games. So I’ll document how to deal with it here so I can refer to it later (or maybe somebody else will find it useful but that’s highly unlikely). So (in case you forgot) CauseWay DOS extender is a special loader allowing to run 32-bit code in DOS environment. Some loaders are standardised around Linear Executable format and can be freely interchanged, Phar Lap P3 format apparently was used on FM TOWNS as well, but this one uses a non-standard format and packed to boot. There are…

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