electronizer Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 I finally got a chance to try again with the internal Atari Tax demo disks I found some time ago. With help from bob1200xl and a borrowed 800, I was able to get the disk to boot and we analyzed it. Looks like they moved the VTOC—there are a bunch of bad sectors where it should have been. We copied over the good sectors to another disk—here's the atr file: HTDemo2.atr Anyone want to try to crack this? Just in time for tax season, though I think there may have been one or two small changes to the tax laws since 1983... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 hmmm, maybe a vapi or atx / pro image might be useful... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 I'm not sure there's even a filesystem on this disk. The boot process doesn't install a D: device and isn't loading a directory, it's just burst loading sectors into contiguous memory. No metadata that I can see like sector links. Is there anything that actually needs cracking here? It seems perfectly willing to print a somewhat amusing sample tax return. Also, I don't remember ever getting an income tax package from the IRS with a peel-off sticker.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Interesting.... Being that the tax laws change so much every year, I am not sure how useful this would be in 2018, but still, another lost piece of software found and archived for history. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 I'm not sure there's even a filesystem on this disk. The boot process doesn't install a D: device and isn't loading a directory, it's just burst loading sectors into contiguous memory. No metadata that I can see like sector links. Is there anything that actually needs cracking here? It seems perfectly willing to print a somewhat amusing sample tax return. Also, I don't remember ever getting an income tax package from the IRS with a peel-off sticker.... I can't get it to work in Altirra 3.20.6. It says corrupt or unsupported every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 (edited) I can't get it to work in Altirra 3.20.6. It says corrupt or unsupported every time. I am using 3.20.6 and it works fine. Nothing special, XL/XE rom... It is a boot disk. When I take a directory using MyDos 4.53, I just get Dos and Dup. They are different sizes than the Dos and Dup from MyDos, but when I try it in Dos 2.5, I notice they are the same size. 37 and 42 respectively. Edited December 6, 2018 by scotty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 I'll try it again and check my settings. I'll also try it on real hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Yeah, the ATR works fine in Altirra for me, even with my (simulated) 1088XEL. Looks like this was a teaching/learning tool moreso than actual tax prep software. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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