ScuzzBlog: Diaries December 2021 Entry 29th December 2021: Post 1: Cover Disc Disks- The final Formats. Cover Disc Disks- The final Formats. Back in May 1999 Amiga Format was treating readers with options of either CD or old fashioned DD disks. It was around that time that they started providing copies of the disks in DMS format on the CD so that readers could create their own copy disks. For my part I was only interested in the CDs by that time and have very few actual floppy cover disks post issue 123. The point being that the floppies were on the CD anyway. I have been threatening for some time to follow up my review of the CD discs issued by Amiga Format in those latter years with a photographic study of the last years of the magazine. Sadly two issues of my magazine collection are trapped in the mountain of magazines here and it would take me an age to find them. The issues being 133 and 135. Not to be dissuaded from doing something I have chosen to ZIP all the DMS files of the DD disks for the period Issue 123 to 136, with 136 being the very last issue of Amiga Format. It is possible for me to un-dms the files and create floppies and possibly create ADF images, but seriously those downloading can do that. And so I have created the DMS files which contain both disks for each issue. All you have to do is click the magazine cover and it will wing its way to you. I also include the software DeCruncherFace which has a GUI for the process. Otherwise simply download the DMS tool I give away today and place in the C drawer on your Amiga. I include some other archivers that can be placed in C. To use DMS from C you open the CLI and simply place the DMS archive in RAM, and with an empty floppy in the DF0 just type in 'dms write RAM:T/'name of archive'.dms' And so af123.dms would read ... 'dms write RAM:T/af123.dms" .... where af123.dms is in RAM:T drawer. Hope that makes sense. Anyhoo the disks provided today are probably the last for a while. Back to boring old photographs tomorrow. Sorry about that. Disks 123a and 123b | Disks 124a and 124b | Disks 125a and 125b Disks 126a and 126b | Disks 127a and 127b | Disks 128a and 128b Disks 129a and 129b | Disks 130a and 130b | Disks 131a and 131b Disks 132a and 132b | Disks 133a and 133b | Disks 134a and 134b Disks 135a and 135b | Disks 136a and 136b DeCruncherFace | DMS [ to be place in the 'C' drawer ] Cover Disc Disks- The final Formats. These last two are not my images.

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