A FEW NOTES ABOUT ASSEMBLING THE ALAMEDA BOOT INFECTOR:

This source code can be assembled by the current version of A86.
No tricks are necessary.

To place the assembled virus in the boot sector of a floppy in the 
A drive, you will need to do the following:

Format the target floppy with the /s option, i.e., make it "bootable."
Then, copy the boot sector of the target floppy to cylinder 39, head 0, 
sector 8 with the NORTON DISK EDITOR or a similar tool. This is necessary,
because Alameda moves the boot to this area when it infects and sets
up conditions to point to it after the PC has loaded Alameda into memory at
"bootstrap."

Then, using the included programs ALEMEDA.DBG and MAK_ALE.BAT, DEBUG will
copy the assembled virus into the boot record of the target floppy in "A."
The disk is now infected.

Remember, place the assembled virus, ALEMEDA.DBG and MAK_ALE.BAT in the same
directory BEFORE executing MAK_ALE.BAT. DEBUG must also be in the path.

ALAMEDA is an infectious, memory resident boot infector which can survive
Ctrl-Alt-Del sequences when in memory. Some variants disable the boot 
process after a pre-determined number of boots or infections have occurred.
This variant has a counter routine in it, but I have not tested it to
determine whether it has any of the above-mentioned utility.

--THE COUCHMASTER