Direct Access Archive

The format supports features such as compression, password protection, and splitting to multiple volumes.

[1] PowerISO provides free command-line tools for Linux and Mac OS X which allow the user to extract DAA files or convert them into ISO format, however these tools have not been updated to support the newest version of the DAA format.

The PowerISO Windows trial version only supports converting images from DAA files up to 300MB,[2] less than half of the capacity of a standard CD.

The program comes with a Windows binary and source code which compiles under Unix-like operating systems.

daa2iso allows users to select the .daa file, and the location for the .iso output via standard windows open and save dialogs For Mac OS X, DAA Converter[4] is a GUI application which wraps the daa2iso command-line tool (GNU license).