High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Disk Masher System (.dms) was an often used method on Amiga, to create a compressed image of a disk (usually floppy). The disk was read block-by-block, and its data structure was maintained. DMS won approval particularly in the demo scene and the Warez scene, since with this tool, disk images could generally be distributed easily in mailbox networks like FidoNet or via telecommunications (modems). The DiskMasher format is copyright-protected and has problems storing particular sequences of bits due to bugs in the compression algorithm, but was widely used in the pirate and demo scenes. To avoid these issues, a number of other disk compressors were developed that used alternative disk reading and compression methods, for instance, xDM.

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