ScuzzBlog: Diaries December 2024 Entry 31st December 2024: Post 1: Decrunching DMS - In the round. Decrunching DMS - In the round. I mentioned the other day how I played Arcade Snooker whilst I de-crunched DMS files on the 4000. A few years back I decided to unarchive a whole load of DMS files on a number of CDs. The disc contents were not labelled other than a reference number and there was literally thousands and thousands of the things. The CD label suggested all the files were PD disks but in truth a lot were official software and games. One was even a full copy of WB 1.3. The DMS disks created were of the Amiga 1000 era and predominantly 1.1 and 1.2. Over the months that I de-crunched the DMS files I built up an ADF archive on the Amiga 4000 which I then copied and transferred to the ZIP on an adjacent A1200 and then onto a USB via a PC and then finally up here onto this Win7 machine. I still have the archive which amounts to 100s of ADF images in a number of directories. The process involved me using the A4000 and DMS de-crunching to floppy disk. I then tested on an A500 sitting next to the A4000. Satisfied that the disk worked I would then ADF image the disk and then place in an archive and copy via Parnet to the 1200. Today I copied over a couple of dozen of the files and fired up on the emulator. I don't think I have looked at these since I first created the disk images some years ago. I captured a few images from the first couple or dozen and feature them here. Not particularly exciting and most certainly for the most not PD disks. Saying that I do recall the next couple of CDs I de-crunched all tended to be more PD related. A lot were demo disks and intros. I did enjoy my time de-crunching disks. I certainly enjoyed playing Arcade Snooker and Sensible World of Soccer. I have included a series of images I created in 2021 showing the circle of Amigas rotating anticlockwise from the A500 with the GVP to the A4000/040 then onto the first A1200 with the Parnet and the ZIP, then to the games machine A1200 playing Arcade Snooker and finally over to the other side to my beloved A1200 from 1993. The circle of Amigas are still busy and set up as the pictures. Nothing changes here. I do have a few copies of the archive on various machines so it is not likely it will disappear in my lifetime at least. What happens after that is anyone's guess. I'm sure the contents are replicated all over the web. Anyway I assume from the noise it must be 2025. Another year and another large window of retro opportunities opens up. Onward. Decrunching DMS - In the round.

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