Disk Masher System

The Disk Masher System (.dms) is an often used method on the Amiga, to create a compressed image of a disk (usually floppy). The disk is read block-by-block, and thus its data structure is maintained. DMS won approval particularly in the demo scene and the Warez scene, since with this tool, disk images could generally be transferred easily with telecommunication modems to mailbox networks like FidoNet for efficient distribution.[1] The DiskMasher format is copyright-protected and has problems storing particular bit sequences due to bugs in the compression algorithm, but was widely used in the pirate and demo scenes. To avoid these issues, a number of other disk compressors were developed that used alternative disk reading and compression methods, for instance, xDM[2] or XAD.

## References

1. ↑ "xDMS - Amiga DMS archive extractor". http://zakalwe.fi/~shd/foss/xdms/.
2. ↑ "xDM - Amiga DMS alternative". http://aminet.net/package/util/arc/XDM20.

## External links

xDMS \- Tool for AmigaOS, MS-DOS and Linux for decompressing DMS files.

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Disk image file formats

Comparison of disc image software

Optical discs|

* BIN+CUE
* CSO
* DAA
* IMG+CCD+SUB
* ISO
* ISZ
* MDF+MDS
* MDX
* NRG
* UIF

Hard disks|

* DMG
* FVD
* IMG
* ISO
* NDIF
* QCOW
* UDIF
* VDI
* VHD
* VMDK
* WIM

Floppy disks|

* ADF, ADZ
* DC42, DART
* DCF
* DMS
* IMG, IMA, IMZ
* VFD

CD-DA|

Disc Description Protocol

Convention: Any item in this table that has the form of "A+B" or "A+B+C" indicates a disk format that spans multiple files, where A contains the bulk of the data, and B and C are sidecar files.

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