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- Disk-Masher System
- Version 1.53
- DOCUMENTATION
- WINDOWS VERSION
- The Story
- ---------
-
- In a period of two years, the DMS packing utility have not been
- updated to follow up on improvements and adjustments,bugs....
- And to follow up on those bugs:
-
- THE BIG ONE:
- ERROR3!ERROR3!ERROR3!ERROR3!ERROR3!ERROR3! e.t.c
- >>>> The Never Ending story.. <<<<<<<
-
- And to follow up on Kickstart changes, I did the changes for DMS
- to recognize a KS 2.x / KS 3.x .
-
- Optimized the code a bit... NO BIG DEAL!
-
- I must really say, that SDS software was not worth anything,
- if they never could do more support on DMS, than what we have seen
- for the last 2 years...
- But expect more updates of the program from us.
-
-
-
-
- *********************************************************************
- ALL DMS FILES MADE WITH THIS VERSION CAN ALSO BE UNPACKED USING
-
- DMS V 1.11
-
- EXCEPT WHEN USING THE HIGHDENSITY OPTION OR FASTFILE SYSTEM DISKS.
- *********************************************************************
-
- FOR BBS OWNERS ... Only for users of AmiExpress 2.x/3.x
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Included with this archive you can find a new DMS checker utility
- made to support the new standards, Highdensity files, e.t.c...
- *********************************************************************
-
-
-
- *the Greeting/thanx page
- ************************
-
-
- DRIZZT of Prodigy
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Finding the DMS v1.11 incompability problem....
-
-
- Midnight Maniac of Paradox
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- for debugging/testing . and for bugsearching of dms 1.11...
-
-
- TarZan of Fairlight
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- for testing the DMSWIN compability with the 1.7Meg format disks..
-
-
- Kronion of Sectorbrains
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- for betatesting v1.53.
-
-
- Famous'O'Hack of ??????
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- showing off, that he can do OS programming, i do it by hardware
- so the reading of the ROM version was ok.. who cares!
- you got the credits..
-
-
-
- BUGS FIXED IN DMSWIN v1.53
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- FIRSTLY:
- DMS CANNOT READ/WRITE PCx: DISKS (PC FORMATTED).
- and have never been able to.
-
-
- PRODIGY found a bug *MADE IN V1.11*, which I didnt really think
- about when I made DMS to work with fastfile system disks..
- and this is true that the OLD dms v1.11 cannot unpack those
- disks, and therefor I have changed "NEEDED VERSION"
- to be v1.51 for unpacking FFS disks.
-
-
- >Famous'O'hack thought that reading a ROM version number to get the
- >Kickstart version number was a BUG? no way! i did not want a
- >fake kickstart version, so to read the ROM version number which
- >works for ALL kickstarts.. i took the datas directly from the ROM
- >But due to lameness, i fixed it so people like him , don't do
- >lame fixed version... but its done... so he must be proud of himself.
-
- >When DMS reported VERIFY ERRORS the program just said track 0 even on
- >other tracks than 0....
-
- >The same goes for the READ-ERROR routine, but it is repaired now..
- >the fill routine for the READ-ERROR was also incorrect, that is fixed
-
- > the bug with packing track 0 of a disk, and it being packed as
- a zero'd track, with no information at all, is now fixed.
- the problem was that the Bitmap checking routine simply clear'd
- track 0 , because it is was never allocated by the DOS..
-
-
- > the instboot program for the DMSTEST util, is now included.
-
- > The DMSTEST Program included in previous packages, was only a
- 680x0 version.. i have now placed 2 version, one 68000 and an 680x0.
-
- UPDATES:
-
- the mousewait routine now set to wait for a single press, and the
- program continues..
-
- transfered the OS DOS info window to be typed in the same window
- as the non-standardbootblock window.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- NEWS IN DMSWIN v1.52
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- WINDOW VERSION
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- By Blackhawk
-
-
- READ ERROR detection
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- DMS did not report is a BAD track was read, and that is now fixed
- so when packing/unpacking the track, you will be notified about the
- bad track.
-
-
-
-
- VERIFY:
- ^^^^^^^
- :> DEFAULT
-
-
- We have all tried to unpack Disks and later found out , that the disk
- had read/write errors.
- Now I can proudly say, that DMS will ALWAYS, unless specified,
- unpack with VERIFY on, why do it without?...
- DMS will tell you IF an error occured, and report to you the BAD TRACK.
-
- DMS will try to write the track 3 times, and after 3 error reports, DMS
- will ask you for RETRY writing or continue.
-
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-
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-
-
-
-
- NOVERIFY.
- ^^^^^^^^^
- (SUBOPTION)
- :> SELECTABLE
-
-
- You can disable the VERIFY , by pressing the VERIFY Icon at the
- main menuscreen
- But I do not recommend it! as DMS would then function in almost the
- same way as previous versions...
-
-
-
- NOTEXT.
- ^^^^^^^
- (SUBOPTION)
- :> SELECTABLE
-
-
- The NOTEXT option have been changed to ignore Track 0 (bootblock) advert
- texts to be shown, too...if prefered?!...
-
-
-
-
-
- UseHD.
- ^^^^^^
- (ICON MAIN MENU)
-
-
-
- Since Kickstart 3.0, shipped with the A1200/A4000. The AmigaDos can
- read/write HighDensity(DUAL FORMAT) diskettes.
- But untill now, no Diskimploder/packer supports the option of packing
- those diskette types.
- DMS can take those 1.7Meg diskettes now. Just remember that this version
- of DMS do not check IF you are unpacking to a normal doubledensity
- diskette, and writing a Highdensity DMS file, to a normal diskette will
- result in an error.
-
- The UseHD option supports all other available suboptions,
- like TEXT,NOZERO e.t.c..
-
- To dewarp an Highdensity DMS file, make sure that you have ENABLED
- the "USEHD" icon.
-
- NOTE: you cannot REPACK a HighDensity .DMS file.
-
-
-
-
- >>NOTE:
- >>
- >>If you're using the option USEHD, the disk cannot be unpacked
- >>using previous versions of DMS, to be more exact.
- >>you cannot depack a .DMS file packed with V1.51, using V1.11
- >>
-
- IT IS POSSIBLE TO READ A NORMAL DOS DISKETTE( 1.x/2.x ) WITH THIS OPTION
- BUT IF YOU REALLY WANT TO, THEN SPECIFY LOWTRACK as 0 HIGHTRACK as 39
- AND IT WILL READ AS IT WAS AN 1.7Meg DISKETTE.
- IF YOU TRY THIS, YOU WILL SEE A SMALL ADVANCHE IN PACKING (10-20K), BUT!
- THESE FILES CANNOT BE UNPACKED WITH DMS v1.11 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- EXPLANATION WHY THIS WORKS:
- A normal DOS diskette consists of 880K data, each track holds data of
- 11264 bytes length, where a HighDensity diskette can take DOUBLE
- the size of datas stored on a normal DD diskette, and therefor
- hold 11264 *2 bytes on each track. So it IS POSSIBLE to read with the
- READHD option, but unless you need to make the file those 10-20K smaller,
- dont use it for that.. Generally most people still have the DMS v1.11.
- By some time, maybe most of the DMS users will have the updated version and
- then.. Thats up to you.
-
-
-
-
- VIEW.
- ^^^^^
- (MAINMENU OPTION)
-
- Several things have been changed to be compatible with the
- new changes in v1.51, and preivous versions will NOT report
- the same information about the file, as DMS v1.51 will do.
-
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-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Other improvements:
- *******************
-
- Bootblock installer for Virus infected disks..
- Normally the Bootblock detecter would install the infected disk
- with a Kickstart 1.3 bootblock, but this version installs your
- infected disk with an updated installed Bootblock (Kickstart 2.x/3.x).
-
- More exact viewing information about the .dms file to be unpacked,
- which Kickstart version needed to use this diskette..
- FileSystem info..e.t.c..
-
-
-
- Plans for future updates:
- *************************
-
- Support of the HEX - VIRUS.library, if really needed, as most disks
- released have never shown any sign of DANGEROUS vira..
-
- A nibble/MFM, NON AmigaDos masher version, which will be developed
- if other people want it, and IF I can get the help needed,
- from Phil Douglas, Mok, Renegade .. or others....
-
- A Sector/Block option, so only single blocks can be read instead
- of whole tracks...for patching disks...
-
-
-
-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-
- COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
-
- DMS v1.11 is Copyrighted 1989-92 , SDS software.
-
-
- DMS/DMSWIN v1.53
- is Copyrighted 1993 , PARADOX DK incorporated software.
-
-
-
- You can register your version of the Disk-Masher System by sending
- $30 to the address written below, include your name, address,
- phone number, and system equipment.
-
- And by being a registered user, you will receive the latest
- updates of Dish-Masher-System(DMS), and other utilities
- connected to DMS.
- A special compiled version will be sent to you, if you register.
-
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