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There is also "bogo MIPS" as a benchmark.
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and it is a bogus value
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01 March 2018, 22:56 | #1728 |
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Short version: Is DMS (DiskMaSher) able to handle non standard track and thus more information than ADF (Amiga Disk File) ? some kind of forerunner of the IPF format or is DMS == ADF ?
Long version: Back in the day, I remember a NDOS game (I forgot the name unfortunately) that was provided to me on two DMS file (something like tracks 1-40 on the 1st DMS file & tracks 41-79 on the 2nd DMS file). It was straightforward to un-DMS those two files to a floppy disk and play the game. Later I took this disk to a friend's house and as he had no free floppy disk we tried to DMS this game to a file on his HD. But we weren't able to do so. We then took a quick look at the documentation of DMS but, as we were more interested in playing games than reading technical stuff, it was faster for me to return home and create a disk for my friend from the two originals DMS (I know shame on us... ) . Since that time I had always the idea that DMS was better than other format like ADF (compression is not part of my question) but that only a few who managed to master this shell tool can use it to his full potential. So is DMS (DiskMaSher) able to handle non standard track and thus more information than ADF (Amiga Disk File) or is DMS == ADF ? Last edited by malko; 24 July 2019 at 13:57. Reason: spelling; changed BiT -> BitD |
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02 March 2018, 01:02 | #1732 | |
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One last question (if I am correct DMS is older than ADF) : If DMS does the same job as ADF, do you know why the second has replaced the first one ? Is ADF better than DMS or is it just like that ? |
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02 March 2018, 01:18 | #1733 | |
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I might be wrong but as far as I'm aware, ADFs were created later when emulation came along... no need to compress anymore as file size / bandwidth were no longer an issue at this time. DMS / ADF; both equal in terms of what type of formats they support i.e. standard DOS disks; but as StingRay already mentioned, don't handle any non-standard disk formats. |
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I could be wrong here (wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last), but I remember reading somewhere that DMS could also have problems with a particular data sequence that could be found, and thus would be unable to work on any disk that contained that particular data sequence.
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I'm confused, ok yeah, DMS will not handle extended tracks or copy protection of any kind, but you can happily pack unprotected NDOS disks as afar as I remember. Am I remembering wrong?
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02 March 2018, 04:39 | #1737 |
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Yeah I couldn't deal with this doubt! I went and DMSed a cracked game (Fire & Ice), and it worked just fine! I am glad my memory is not fading away.
Also I remembered that a lot of old Amiga warez collections had files in DMS format. |
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Yeah, I remember back when I was young, dumb and full of enthusiasm (and had little in the way of money) downloading DMS files from my local BBS, and I'm sure at least some of them didn't extract to disks that were explorable under Workbench.
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So let's say that the wheel was reinvented with ADF if there is no improvement over DMS . Quote:
I might be wrong but as far as I know (I welcome being corrected also ), this is due to a "bug"/"misconception" in the routine that pack the tracks. So unpacked track (like ADF) are not concerned. |
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Besides, DMS has quite a few bugs so you can easily end up with archives containing wrong/broken data! |
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