DMS is short for "Disk Masher", which was a program that created a compressed disk image. These have to be written back to a floppy (or virtual floppy, but lets not worry about that
Amiga floppy disk drives are named DF0: to DF3: (depending on how many drives you have). Reading from and writing to DFx: will read and write Amiga disks. CrossDOS provides PC0: to PC3: for the same drives, which when written to or read from will use MS-DOS format, so your external drive is actually DF1, when writing DMS files.
OK heres what to do:
1) Copy the DMS file from PC1: to the Ram Disk
2) Take out the disk from the drive
3) Open a shell, and do the following:
1.Workbench> RAM:
1.Ram Disk> DMS WRITE filename.dms TO DF1:
The DMS program will prompt you to insert a disk, then write the contents of the DMS file to it.
It should now write to DF1. Note that if you want to boot the game in the external disk drive, you'll have to do the following:
1) Reboot with the disk in DF1, while holding down both mousebuttons
2) Continue to hold both mousebuttons until the early boot menu appears
3) Select "Boot Options", then in the "Boot Device" lister, highlight DF1. This will make DF1 temporarily have a higher boot priority than your hard disk (by default a bootable disk in DF0 overrides your hard disk, but DF1 doesn't, so you have to select it manually), click "Use" and then click "Boot".
Note that SOME old games don't work from an external drive.
An alternative is to download "WHDLoad" from
whdload.de, and the installer for your game. Once the game has been un-dms'd to disk, you can use the WHDLoad installer to install the game onto your hard disk.
