- Using DMS Files

DMS or DiskMasher was a way of compressing Amiga disks down into a single file. This was mostly used by people who wanted to backup their disks onto tape or CD. The drawback was that once compressed you couldn't easly write anything to the dms file and therefore WinUAE treats DMS files as read only. The reason I am including it in the guide is because alot of file you get off the net are in DMS format.

How to use a DMS file

Just treat DMS files exactly the way you would ADF files. You can read how to open disks in the "Using ADF Files" page.

Converting DMS files to ADF

XDMS (Which you can get here) is a very useful program. It used to be needed by WinUAE but is now built in. It can test and extract DMS files using the PC command line. If you say wanted to convert a DMS file to an adf file you can type

xdms -u filename.dms filename.adf

Obviously you need XDMS and the DMS file in the same folder to do this.

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