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FILE BASED TRACKDISK SIMULATOR
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What does it do and why ?
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A friend of mine recently got a CD-Rom drive, and had a few
CD's on which the archives were stored using DMS or some
other track-packer. I found out about FMS off of AmiNet.
FMS allows you to Un-DMS or whatever direct to your
hard-disk by providing a FF0: device, which acts like a virtual
floppy disk.
I installed the device, and used it, which seemed great. Some
time later, I decided to do some experiments with fms-
disk.device and find out if I could make it faster. Well. If you
use DiskSpeed or some similiar program, you'll see that I've
managed to decrease the CPU usage, whilst slightly increas-
ing performance on most tests. In addition to this, my device is
also quite a bit smaller.
As well as unmashing CD archives, FMS is useful perhaps for.
People creating floppy based distributions, where they can
quickly fill up the FFx: with all required files, and then DISK-
COPY FFx: Dfx:
About installation, requirements and other useful stuff please
consult documentation.