Re: [Atari800-users] Atari800-users Digest, Vol 126, Issue 5

[Steve B. <st...@at...>]

I also notice skipped keypresses. 



While we are discussing keyboards I have also noticed that on Mac the caps lock key doesn’t appear to do anything at all



On a Mac there is no RSPECIAL char so I can’t press that for lower but caps lock is supposed to change case too. 


> On May 10, 2024, at 1:23 AM, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 08:19:05AM +0200, Miro Kropáček wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 May 2024 at 05:43, Chris Chiesa <chr...@gm...> wrote:
>> 
>>> I still use Atari800 v2.2.1, which is ancient. I tried v4.0.0 a year or
>>> two ago and found that it was detectably sluggish in responding to the
>>> (Windows PC) keyboard, to the point of unusability.  So I will probably
>>> stay with v2.2.1 forever, until-or-unless somebody can identify, and back
>>> out, whatever changed in keyboard handling between then and now.
>>> 
>> Did you report that bug? As this was before Github time, it's possible it
>> was forgotten even if you did.
>> 
>> Can you precisely describe your setup (is it really visible even on
>> computers with several GHz of CPU power?), steps to reproduce/observe (in
>> other words, how can I notice it) ?
> 
> I admit I've also noticed Atari800 seems to lose
> keypresses when I type at my regular speed, e.g.
> just now in BASIC what I typed came out as:
> 
>  10 PRNT "HELO THERE"
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.4 with Atari800 5.0.0 (installed
> from Ubuntu repositories) on a Lenovo Thinkpad T480s laptop
> which `cat /proc/cpuinfo` shows ""
> 
> I've attached my current config file (~/.atari800.cfg),
> in case any of the options I have set are useful.
> 
> How can I help debug?  I haven't installed Atari800 from
> source in ages, but I'm happy to pull from the Git repo
> and build it if that could help.
> 
> -bill!
> 
> <billk.atari800.cfg-20240509.txt>
> 
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