starwindz Posted July 17, 2014 Author Share Posted July 17, 2014 Something is wrong with the download link. It just keeps reloading the release notes page without ever triggering a download. I can download version 1.1.0 using the link in the notes, as well as the "Invalid Enum Value" bug fix release. But 1.1.4 eludes me. Help? Please run a8.exe and then 1.1.4 update will be applied via online updater program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Oberhäuser Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Nope, that doesn't work. I have the save issue (ZIP version) when I try to update by A8.exe on my laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 20, 2014 Author Share Posted July 20, 2014 (edited) 'Atari 800 - Best Game Pack' has just been mentioned in 'ANTIC the Atari 8-bit Podcast'. Please check it out. ANTIC Episode 13 - The Atari 8-bit Podcast Edited July 20, 2014 by starwindz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Just had a listen to it, the front end gets a small mention but its pointed as one to check out which is good, wish they had done a little bit more of a check out to see where the gamebase is heading and its features but its all good. Sadly they devoted more time to the Centron mess up, managed to name the graphics mode as CMODE32 which is wrong and again really didn't dig too deep to see why folks are not apologising re the game (well some of us did but the game was never released). If they had fully read the whole thread it would have become clear if was a hoax. Oh well....At least they got to mention FlashJazzcats fine work and wanted to do an interview with Jon... Anyway, Starwindz, what about the maps suggestion for the frontend, seems to be about the only thing not already or planned to be on there.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 21, 2014 Author Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) what about the maps suggestion for the frontend, seems to be about the only thing not already or planned to be on there.. Actually, I can not understand the maps suggestion for the frontend. Sorry about that. Could you explain it to me in detail? Edited July 21, 2014 by starwindz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) Actually, I can not understand the maps suggestion for the frontend. Sorry about that. Could you explain it to me in detail? There's loads of maps for games levels out there, one's like Goonies or Zorro where you can see all the game levels, helps people finish the games a bit easier.. Edited July 21, 2014 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 21, 2014 Author Share Posted July 21, 2014 There's loads of maps for games levels out there, one's like Goonies or Zorro where you can see all the game levels, helps people finish the games a bit easier.. Nice idea! I have found some games' maps from following sites. Are there any other source of maps? http://www.ataricave.com http://atari.panprase.cz/?action=mapa (Attached files are sample maps from atari.panprase.cz.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) Here's another place mapy.atari8.info/ Edited July 21, 2014 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnt_mood Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 (edited) Thanks so much! great work! Edited July 21, 2014 by dnt_mood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Yep, starwindz is a very hard worker on this, the speed he adds features is amazing... @starwindz, I'm still checking the cheat files, found many were bad as in the Karateka one where the person had thought the found the energy bar pointer but in reality had only NOP'ed the animation side of it, it was still counting down. Still loads to go and then I start adding my own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 (edited) Here is a link for Shamus maps.. I did not see it at the above listed sites.. http://myweb.cableone.net/bsutton/shamus.html Whoops seems that link is dead... Anyone have these? I thought I grabbed them but I cannot seem to find 'em. Edited July 22, 2014 by Shannon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subby Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 (edited) Here is a link for Shamus maps.. I did not see it at the above listed sites.. http://myweb.cableone.net/bsutton/shamus.html Whoops seems that link is dead... Anyone have these? I thought I grabbed them but I cannot seem to find 'em. Try here http://web.archive.org/web/20090321065758/http://myweb.cableone.net/bsutton/shamus.html it seems to be at least part of it. Edited July 22, 2014 by Subby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 Adding feature of the map list is quite easy but adding all map database is a time consuming work... Anyway I will add this feature shown as attached screenshots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Brilliant work Starwindz....Thank you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetboot Jack Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Wow - just been playing this, awesome work, just great!! Has anyone gotten this working on OSX wing Wine or the like?? sTeVE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 (edited) There's an extra surprise in the download.... a8.exe Infection: Win32:Banker-KWO [Trj] Edited July 23, 2014 by CyranoJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Wow - just been playing this, awesome work, just great!! Has anyone gotten this working on OSX wing Wine or the like?? sTeVE Have a read here http://atariage.com/forums/topic/226801-atari-800-best-game-pack-releases/page-4?do=findComment&comment=3029292 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 (edited) There's an extra surprise in the download.... a8.exe Infection: Win32:Banker-KWO [Trj] What checker are you using? I'd say its a deffo false positive based on the exe packer... Avira and Comodo on mine (and Avira is very quick to call certain packers trojans) show it as 100% fine.. I'll just get the file again...One sec.. Nope, no issue here, all I get is my Comodo firewall telling me its calling to the internet and should I let it do it? The only reason it calls the internet is that the A8 is the online updater, after its checked for updates it runs the main file in the database. Edited July 23, 2014 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 (edited) Avast 2014.9.0.2021 Definitions 140722-1 a8_best_gamepack.exe scans ok, so I'll just never run the updater (or until one that scans clean arrives) Edited July 23, 2014 by CyranoJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 If they offer a send file service then I'd suggest to do that so they can check it and I'd expect add it to their false positives.. Also, just in case do a full scan.. All I can say is that I use it constantly testing stuff and I am an stickler for AV and Malware protection, I'm almost 100% that if its not been infected by something else that Avast is thinking the packer for the exe is a virus by mistake which is very common these days. Would also be interesting for any others to check their file or if they have had a similar message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Probably, but if all I'm missing is the updater I'm fine with that The database is very nicely done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 At the moment the only way to get updates is via the updater, I'll ask if Starwindz will make a separate file or not... As for the DB, yeah its ' a thing of beauty' as Mickey says in Rocky, all thanks to Starwindz, I just do idea's and ask Emu authors to add little bits to make the gamebase even better, oh and test it a LOT Starwindz does all the real magic and hard work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Avast 2014.9.0.2021 Definitions 140722-1 a8_best_gamepack.exe scans ok, so I'll just never run the updater (or until one that scans clean arrives) IF its the exe packer then maybe Starwindz *miight* do a different version, I make no promises as its his project and his alone.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwindz Posted July 24, 2014 Author Share Posted July 24, 2014 @All people The troyan-suspicion file has been removed and 1.1.0 zip file has been re-uploaded. As I wrote in this post before, the previous a8.exe is NOT a troyan like that. @CyranoJ and everyone who want to have new a8.exe Please download and extract the attached file to the game pack home folder. The update will work fine. a8_new.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 That works fine, thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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