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It is truly an incredible piece of software.

Regarding linefeeds when you list and enter, there is a way to deal with that built into Altirra. From the help file: End-of-line character translation By default, the H: device does not do any translations on read or written data. This is inconvenient for text files since the host-based text programs use a LF or CR/LF convention instead of the Atari's $9B end-of-line character. To deal with this, the host device maps H6: through H9: to the same paths as H1:-H4:, but accesses through the H6-H9: aliases do EOL conversion. On read, CR, LF, or CR/LF pairs are converted to ATASCII EOL characters, and on write, EOL is converted back to CR/LF. All file sizes and file positions seen by the emulation are in the ATASCII version of the file stream and are consistent with GET/PUT commands.

Karateka was the game I first played on Apple and liked better on my Atari. (Mostly because the Apple Computers at school only had green screens. The "color" on the Atari wasn't great, but I thought it added something.)

Awesome. I'm playing Shamus now and I have more lives than I know what to do with. Thanks!

I'd love a Shamus cheat on Altria! Todd

That's it! Thanks.

I'm trying to recall the name of a "game" for the Atari 800 that allowed you to play music with the joystick. You would move the joystick around and colored bars would pop up on the screen with musical notes. You could pick different background music and you could record your songs. Who can tell me the name of this? Thanks. -Todd

Hi. This looks really cool. Please put me down for one assembled device. Thanks!

Paul, I got a new Defender profile today. The version number matches the version in the Microsoft Update Catalog (http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=malware) Unfortunately, it still FALSELY flags this file as malware. I have submitted this as a false-positive on the Microsoft web site to see if they can adjust future definitions to prevent it from being falsely flagged. I'd like to provide closure for others that read these posts, I agree that this file is safe. As I've stated several times, this is clearly an issue with Windows Defender and Windows 10. I believe that anyone that checks the 1.2.0 beta .exe file on Windows 10 with Windows Defender will see it flag and can safely disregard the concern. This file appears to be safe. For what it's worth, I ran the file on the 58 checkers AFTER I posted here and someone suggested that it might be a false-positive. I do sincerely apologize for creating concern over something that is clearly not an issue, but keep in mind, my original post came after the file disappeared overnight from my Windows VM and showed up in Windows Defender as a quarantined HIGH RISK Virus. I was only trying to warn people about what at the time seemed like a very real concern. Servers get hacked all the time. I never meant to imply that the people behind compiling this amazing collection of a fabulous walk down memory lane for me were doing anything malicious. I was concerned that someone had possibly hacked their Google Drive account and uploaded a version with a virus. Again, I agree, there is no real risk here and I am sorry that I caused such a large amount of trouble. Please let me know what else I can do to further make up for the trouble I have caused. -Todd

Sorry to have wasted everyone's time. I hope that you eventually find comfort for whatever has made you so bitter. I will do whatever I can to try to avoid being a subject of irritation in the future. Thank you to everyone for their support and concern. Todd.

All of my computers and VMs are runnning properly licensed Windows I'll try not to take that accusation personally.

This. This thread. What this thread represents keeps me up at night I got an Atari 800 for my Birthday when I was a Freshman in high school. January 27, 1982. Atari had just changed the 800 to default to 48K of RAM. It had 3 of those giant 16K modules in the back. I got the 410 cassette with it. Then I eventually got a Rana 1000. Then when the 130XE came out, I got one of those and an Indus GT. I kept both computers and I built a switch box to switch the SIO for the drives (And my Okimate 10 color printer) between the 800 and the 130XE. This switch box was a work of the best shoddy soldering you've ever seen. I got this giant switch with enough leads on it and it was round, so I mounted it in a Campbells soup can. When the ST's came along, I sold my Atari 800 and 130XE. But for some reason, I kept the Rana and the Indus. (I really have no recollection of the series of events that led to that, but that is what I had left.) My Wife's family had an Atari 800XL. It stopped working, I suspected it was the power supply, so I took it and put it in the same box with the floppy drives and all of my disks. 3 years ago, we were getting ready to move. (This part should sound familiar to pretty much everyone here, right?) I had a box with my A8 stuff and a box of Atari ST disks. The storage room would look much better (and the house would be easier to show) if that stuff wasn't there, so it went out to the curb. I'm not sure I really miss the hardware that much. (Altirra is a REALLY good emulator, overall a MUCH better experience than a real Atari ever was.) I don't even miss the disk with commercial games on them or the cartridges, although I do miss the Track and Field controller I had... What I miss the most is all of the disks that had all of the software I had written in BASIC over the years. I even submitted an app to Antic Magazine. It was an app I used to make inserts for cassette cases that listed the songs on both sides and the name of the cassete on the spine. Interestingly, even though they rejected my app, they released one that was similar (and admittedly better) than mine a couple months later. I have spent the past couple of weeks re-writing a crappy little game I made back then. It turned out pretty much exactly like it did 30+ years ago. Still just as crappy, but at least I have that back... Todd

Yeah, I was the one that ran the scan there. I agree, this seems like a fals positive. And I downloaded Paul's .rar file and extracted it and Windows does see it as a threat. So, it must be something about that file that is falsely flagging in Defender. Thanks to everyone for your help.

No. I need the one from 1.2.0.

This appears to be the file fron the 1.1.o zip, not the 1.2.0 update zip. This file scans fine with Defender. It's the one from 1.2.0 update that flags. Thanks.

Hi. Thanks everyone for your time and attention to this. It's clear that there is something up with Windows Defender. However, @Mclaneinc, I am not the one not reading the posts. Your screenshot shows this definition version: 1.235.3056.0 My screenshot (and the body of my post) shows this definition version: 1.235.3159.0 Also, I've said several times that I cannot find another virus scan program that agrees with Windows Defender, so it is clearly a Windows Defender issue, not an issue with this fine compilation of Atari games. I downloaded it from this page: http://atari800.tistory.com/category/Download Using this the link: Download For now, I'm just using the 1.1.0 version. It does not flag and seems to work pretty well. (I really don't have a choice, I can't get the 1.2.0 version on my computer because Windows Defender will not let me put it there.) Again, Thanks to everyone for their attention. You cannot be too careful these days with Viruses. -Todd

Did you download the update beta?

Did you try scanning the .exe in the update zip file with the latest Defender definitions? In the meantime, I do have a real Windows laptop. (Sorry, running Windows 10, Microsoft upgraded it for me...) Again, I cannot even copy the file to it because it says there is a virus. The only way I can scan it is to leave it on the network share from my Mac and right-click and tell defender to scan it. So, since I cannot copy it frm my Mac to the Windows machine and since I couldn't unzip it either, I went back to the web site on my Windows laptop and downloaded the file again. (The 1.2.0 update - beta 3.zip) The update completed and I unzipped it. It said Windows Defender has found some malware and removed it. The folder it tried to unzip to is empty. Again, this is a fresh download on an actual Windows 10 laptop with the latest Windows Defender definitions. Like I said, I'm not saying this isn't a false alarm (sorry for all the compund negatives in that sentence), I just don't know what to trust. Thanks. Todd

WE HAVE A WINNER! Adding 4 more pages of RAM fixed the issue! Thank you!

@mclaneinc I'm not trying to raise false claims. As I stated in my original post, after downloading it last night, the .exe file was gone today and it was in the Windows Defender quarantine. This is a brand new Windows 10 install (Created 2/5) that is running in a VM on my Mac. The only thing installed on here is Altirra and the Win800 emulator. All things that are on here were downloaded from my Mac and then copied to Windows. I downloaded the 1.1.0 file and then manually copied the contents of the 1.2.0 update into the correct places in the 1.1.0 folder structure and then I copied that to my Windows install. This is the ONLY file in the Defender quarantine. I have no evidence that anything else on my machine is infected. I went back and unzipped both files and the file in the 1.1.0 zip does not flag, but the file that Defender thinks is infected is in the 1.2.0 update - beta 3.zip. I cannot even unzip that file under Windows. It will not complete. If I unzip it on my Mac and try to copy it to Windows, it will not let me because it says it is dangerous. Also, my Windows Defender definitions are newer than yours. I have 1.235.3159.0 File Copy Error Defender Version Quarantine I have tried testing this file with other online checkers and none of them think this file is malicious. I realize false-positives happen, but I would like someone to at least check the .exe from the update zip file with the latest Defender definitions to make sure. Thank you. -Todd

For what it's worth, Microsoft Safety Scanner does not detect it as a threat...

I have Kaspersky. And I agree, Kaspersky doesn't seem to detect it, and I'm not trying to spread FUD. I'm just concerned that Windows Defender flags it. Can anyone else confirm that their version of Windows Defender also flags it?

Yeah. I just did that too. But Windows Defender keeps flagging it. Much like Alternative Facts in the news, how do we know which is right?

So, I downloaded this and went to play it and the .exe file was gone. Went to replace it and Windows said it was a virus. Looked in my Windows Defender history and it quarantined it and provided this link: https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/entry.aspx?name=Trojan%3aWin32%2fTulim.D!cl&threatid=2147706924&enterprise=0 Seems pretty serious. The forum admins might want to remove this thread until this is addressed. -Todd

I moved the top of memory down 4 pages and used that space. The redefined 6 characters. All of the caracters display fine except the six that I redefined. (I'm using BASIC XE as an editor, but I have not used any BASIC XE specific functionality, the game runs fine in normal BASIC on Altirra.) 8010 Nmemtop=Peek(106)-48020 Poke 106,Nmemtop 8030 Graphics 0 8035 Startlist=Nmemtop*256 8040 ? "HOLD ON...":For Moveme=0 To 10 23:Poke Startlist+Moveme,Peek(57344+Mo veme):Next Moveme 8050 Poke 756,Nmemtop 8110 Start=Nmemtop*256+(8*7) 8120 For I=0 To 47 8130 Read A:Poke Start+I,A:Next I 8170 Return Every time I enter a graphics mode, I poke the address of the new character set. 120 Graphics 1+16 121 Poke 756,Nmemtop I know it is using my new character set becase the characters I redefined are missing. But I cannot figure out how they could be missing. Thanks