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Re: playing dms files in winuae ??

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From: Brian White
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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From: Brian White <white_brian@abuse.dingoblue.net.au>
Newsgroups: alt.emulators.amiga,aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: playing dms files in winuae ??
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:01:50 +0800
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