Disk Masher System

DMS (Disk Masher System) is a compressed disk image format used on Amiga computers.

Identification
Files begin with ASCII characters "".

Format info

 * DMS header structure

Sample files
Uncompressed (0):
 * Zoom Volume One → proclip/TH22A.DMS

Simple/RLE (1):
 * Aminet CD-ROM #1 → AMINET/DEMO/SOUND/VIBRATIONS_ZNT.DMS

Quick (2):
 * FAIRLIGHT 10 YEARS → FAIRLIGHT_10_YEARS.zip → FAIRLIGHT_10_YEA.{BIN,CUE} → FLTAMIGA/FLT1991/BOMBJACK.DMS

Medium (3):
 * Aminet CD-ROM #1 → AB20/DEMOS/COMERCIL/KNGHTSFT.DMS

Deep (4):
 * Aminet CD-ROM #1 → AMINET/DEMO/EURO/ODYSEY92.DMS

Heavy1 (5):
 * Utilities Professional 1-1500 CD-ROM → 00010250/VAR0128.DMS

Heavy2 (6):
 * Aminet CD-ROM #1 → AMINET/DEMO/EURO/CMD_TP5B.DMS

Various:
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/dms/
 * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/dms/

Software

 * xDMS (portable C source, partially public domain)
 * dms111 (Original Amiga software)
 * Ancient (decompresses to ADF)
 * The Unarchiver

Links

 * Wikipedia article