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Article #522Re: playing dms files in winuae ??
From: Brian White
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 04:01
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 04:01
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:12:00 -0000, "Peter Morgan" <news@morgans26.SHPAMBEGONE.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > >"Adam Slater (H0llyw00d H0gan)" <slattery@tig.com.au> wrote in message >news:1014202440.160160@bugstomper.ihug.com.au... >> I clicked the list pc drives at startup check box and when I go to boot a >> dms file through the floppy thing I go Amiga dos. What do I do now ? >> >> <<<I dont know about Xdms, but I think thats so you can access the DMS >> files in Billblows. >> >> What I do is to boot up in Winuae, with the drive in question listed >> as a directory, or "List PC drives at startup" and use amiga's DMS to >> extract to a Ramdrive, and recompress them as ADF's. >> >> DMS Write [file] to RAD: >> >> or something close to that. >> >> Then, once in ADF, Winuae can boot those disks.>>> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, Slattery (H0llyw00d H0gan). Running on The Internet Group at 56k >:-( >> >> >> >> >Why not use WinUAE to create a new ADF file as DF0: and extract the DMS file >to that? Points to Peter, Thats another way :) Create a blank ADF file. Boot Winuae making sure the blank file is active in DF0: When workbench loads, open a shell. DMS write [File].dms to DF0: DMS file is written to DF0:, which happens to be an ADF. Then you can boot that image in Winuae
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