ADF-Workshop (formerly DMS-Workshop)

[dirkies]

A nice feature would be too rename the resulting adf with the tosec name, or is that the case already?

[Crashdisk]

Originally Posted by tomse

The drag'n'drop works perfectly thanks..
and my antivirus does not complain.

sorry for the delay, I thought it was implemented in the release.

The drag'n'drop will be proposed at the next update, however, at the last publication, I had requested a whitelisting for some antivirus...

Originally Posted by dirkies

A nice feature would be too rename the resulting adf with the tosec name, or is that the case already?

I think adding this possibility but I have not enough time right now to work on this

[Crashdisk]

welcome on the forum chip ,
you can convert and save a badly decompress file by enabling these options in the menu:

Convert/Fix
|_ADF options
   |_Even on error
   |_Even incomplete

I will modify some texts may be to make it more obvious

[Crashdisk]

incomplete DMS/WRP can be trainers or fix, they are not bad but not sufficient to generate a complete working ADF file

[Crashdisk]

Zoom format support is not planned due to lack of time, interest and because I'm not a professional programmer

By default, ADFW prevent the user to generate a bad file and a message explains why!

File selected             : ATX-APTR.DMS
File size                 : 19.794 bytes
CRC32                     : $3B3CC244
File loaded as an DMS     : DMS Archive

  Cyl    Dec Len   RLE Len  Comp Len  C.Mode & Flag  U.SUM  D.CRC  H.CRC  Crypt
------  --------  --------  --------  -------------  -----  -----  -----  -----
   C00    11.264     4.562     2.940  Heavy2  - T -  $10E9  $9DDE  $E8DF     No
   C60    11.264         -    11.214  Heavy2  D T -  $EA58  $3259  $7576     No
   C61    11.264     5.787     5.524  Heavy2  - - -  $7061  $5C0D  $FE12     No

WARNING: 1 bad cylinder(s) detected!
WARNING: It seems that this DMS file is a patch, splitted Or incomplet....

ADF file not saved : 1 bad cylinder detected!

In this, example, two problems are reported:
- Decompression bug ($EA58), a disease that led me to create ADFW!
- The file does not contain all the cylinders needed to create a functional ADF


By forcing the conversion, the generated file will have additional tags to report the problem: ATX-APTR.DMS > ATX-APTR[u][b].adf
[u] for underdump
[b] for bad
and ADFW will show this message:
"ADF file saved but 77 cylinder(s) missed and 1 bad cylinder(s) detected!"

[Crashdisk]

In the first post, I added a new database package:
ADF-Workshop DB - Amiga (Warez Scene-v2016-04-15).zip
|_Unrenamed Set - Warez scene Pack1 (v2016-04-14).db
|_Unrenamed Set - Warez scene Pack2 (v2016-04-14).db
|_Unrenamed Set - Warez scene Pack3 (v2016-04-14).db
|_Unrenamed Set - Warez scene Pack4 (v2016-04-14).db
|_Unrenamed Set - Warez scene Pack5 (v2016-04-15).db

A total of 153.525 ADF with their "original" names.

File selected             : UTBTR.WRP
File size                 : 45.559 bytes
CRC32                     : $7761D32A
File loaded as an WRP     : Warp v1.1

TOP 5 based on track identification :
            1) 100.0% [C762A816] Untouchables, The (1989)(Ocean)(PAL)(Disk 1 of 2)[cr PNA][t +1 Pseudo-Ops]
                                 Warez scene - Amiga Emerald CD3 - paranoimia - pna-unt1
                                 Warez scene - Boiler Room Tape 02 - UTBTR[patch]
                                 Warez scene - Phoenix 3 - THE-UNT1
                                 Warez scene - Tuna #2 - DSK1604

Warning, this is duplicate with:
Unrenamed Set - SoftGallo Team (v2015-04-01)
Unrenamed Set - Wiroma (Argentina Computer Shop Collection) (v2013-07-04)

[prowler]

Originally Posted by chip

I would like to convert a bad .dms file in a bad .adf file

I know it can be strange as request, but ADF-Workshop if find some problems in the source dms doesn't create the adf

It's possible to create anyway the adf in some way ?

Hi chip,

It's perfectly reasonable to want to salvage as much as possible from a damaged archive of any kind by extracting the content while ignoring CRC errors. I know of one utility which will extract zipped and gzipped archives using a brute force method, but as yet there is none for use with DMS archives.

You have to remember that ADF-Workshop has been created primarily as a tool for preparation, validation and comparison of disk images for inclusion in TOSEC and other databases, and as such, your request is rather beyond its scope.

Some while ago, I managed to recover the content of a set of damaged DMS archives by using utilities I found on the web to determine the actual and expected checksums of the damaged compressed tracks, and then replacing the expected checksums with the actual ones in the damaged archives using a binary file editor so that the ADF images, albeit damaged, could be extracted.

Then, after repairing a few trivial errors in one of the resulting ADFs, I recompressed it and, finally, because the damage had a systematic cause, I was able to discover what it was and repair the others directly.

Although I made fairly comprehensive notes of how I did this at the time, and I still have all the utilities and disk images to hand, I haven't yet quite got it worked out in sufficient detail to write the definitive guide "Extracting DMS archives using a brute force method".

When I have, I shall make it available in a new thread here in these forums, complete with a coverdisk containing all the tools needed.

Do you think you might find that useful?

[prowler]

Originally Posted by chip

For the moment it's not needed, thanks anyway
The option which talked about Crashdisk worked fine for me, indeed

ADF is created from DMS even if it is damaged
You misunderstood my request, anyway

I'm not interested in recovering the files from the disk image
I guess this is possible to do with tools like the one you used, indeed

I wanted only a .ADF in a place of a .DMS, only that .-)

I wasn't interested in recovering the files from the disk image either, I was looking to repair a set of corrupted DMS disk images, so that they would unpack correctly to the corresponding ADF disk images, and in that I was successful.

But since then (early 2005), a tool has become available for unpacking a damaged DMS file by ignoring CRC errors to salvage the ADF, which one might well have a better chance of fully recovering.

xDMS 1.3.3 is available here.

It is a Win32 command line utility with the following features:

 xDMS  v1.3.3  -  Portable DMS archive unpacker  -  Public Domain
 Written by     Andre Rodrigues de la Rocha  <adlroc@usa.net>
 Maintained by  Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>

 Usage: xdms [options] <command> {<dms_file[.dms]> [+output]}

 Commands :
     t : Test DMS archives
     u : Unpack DMS archives to disk images
     z : Unpack to disk images and compress it with gzip
     x : Extract files inside DMS archives using readdisk
     v : View DMS archives information
     f : View full information
     d : Show attached FILEID.DIZ
     b : Show attached Banner

 Options :
    -f : Override errors (for desperate data salvaging)
    -q : Quiet
    -v : Verbose
    -d <destdir>  : Set destination directory
    -p <password> : Decrypt encrypted archives using password

To unpack damaged files requires the -f option and u command.

This version of the tool did not become available until 2006, but it now means that nobody will be needing more guidance than that which appears in the code box above.

Source code is available here.

[dlfrsilver]

xDMS is inferior to ADF workshop, and by far....

[SuperPlay]

Hi Crashdisk

I don't know how I missed the new database!

ADF-Workshop DB - Amiga (Warez Scene-v2016-04-15)

Thanks :-)

better late then never!

[Vot]

Originally Posted by prowler

I wasn't interested in recovering the files from the disk image either, I was looking to repair a set of corrupted DMS disk images, so that they would unpack correctly to the corresponding ADF disk images, and in that I was successful.

But since then (early 2005), a tool has become available for unpacking a damaged DMS file by ignoring CRC errors to salvage the ADF, which one might well have a better chance of fully recovering.

xDMS 1.3.3 is available here.

It is a Win32 command line utility with the following features:

 xDMS  v1.3.3  -  Portable DMS archive unpacker  -  Public Domain
 Written by     Andre Rodrigues de la Rocha  
 Maintained by  Heikki Orsila 

 Usage: xdms [options]  { [+output]}

 Commands :
     t : Test DMS archives
     u : Unpack DMS archives to disk images
     z : Unpack to disk images and compress it with gzip
     x : Extract files inside DMS archives using readdisk
     v : View DMS archives information
     f : View full information
     d : Show attached FILEID.DIZ
     b : Show attached Banner

 Options :
    -f : Override errors (for desperate data salvaging)
    -q : Quiet
    -v : Verbose
    -d   : Set destination directory
    -p  : Decrypt encrypted archives using password

To unpack damaged files requires the -f option and u command.

This version of the tool did not become available until 2006, but it now means that nobody will be needing more guidance than that which appears in the code box above.

Source code is available here.

I still love the way they removed my name from it, it had some function that made a random temp filename that didnt exist in the win32 libraries so i fixed it so it would compile on win32 and sent it to heikki as no working version existed at the time. Nice to see they removed my name from the history. (Trivial fix... but still)

are there any updates of ADF-Workshop program ore data files and how can i make my own data base files to inport
ow i mis a option to display info text files which where somtimes include in dms file

[Sinphaltimus]

Originally Posted by Tino_M

are there any updates of ADF-Workshop program ore data files and how can i make my own data base files to inport
ow i mis a option to display info text files which where somtimes include in dms file

Your recent comment brought this topic to my attention.

I'm wondering if there is a similar tool that doesn't rely on TOSEC databases. Something for my personal non-TOSEC collection to manage every ADF I have whether I created it myself, got it from gamebase, tosec or other source. Or can ADF workshop do this as well? Without loading databases?

[mai]

Originally Posted by Tino_M

are there any updates of ADF-Workshop program ore data files and how can i make my own data base files to inport

Such tool exists, probably Crashdisk has reason(s) to not publish!

Originally Posted by Tino_M

ow i mis a option to display info text files which where somtimes include in dms file

Isnt it the option "Save Banner" of "Convert/Fix" menu?

okay i see that but i dont want to save fix the dms just to show up when reading loking at dms file

[chip]

What means the text "Possible disk altered by doscopy" that is written in red ?

[Vousti]

I doubt ADF-Workshop is updated anymore. Crashdisk should just release the source and PureBasic dependency could be eventually dropped out.

[chip]

It could be possible to add support for the .DSQ format ?

I mean, just to show the content, not the conversion to ADF

It would be useful i think

Thanks in advance, chip

[DamienD]

I know it's not providing what you've requested, but this site is pretty handy so thought I'd post: http://www.amiga-stuff.com/

...in relation to your post, click "Archivers" --> "Download": http://www.amiga-stuff.com/archivers-download.html

[chip]

Thanks for the link DamienD

Anyway it's not problem to dearchive .DSQ

I already know how to convert to ADF (to be precise there are two different ways)

Only wanted ask for inclusion in ADF-Workshop, giving the possibility to analyze the format

In other words to see the content and extract the files from

This could avoid the conversion to ADF