Can I extract DMS files directly to my hard drive or do I have to copy them to disk?

THE DMS (Disk Masher System) is a compression format that stores the state of all the blocks on a disk. This means that they are restricted to copying themselves to mediums that have the same storage capacity (such as 880k disks). There is a way around this however; several tools on Aminet, such as the fms.device create a virtual floppy disk using part of the hard drive. Nevertheless, you can only run Standard DOS disks (those that can be accessed from the OS) from your hard disk. All software that accesses the trackdisk.device directly will fail. Some games can be installed using 3^rd part installers that store disks as disk images, a large file on your hard drive. These can be found on Aminet.

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