Re: [Atari800-users] Keyboard stuff (was: Re: Atari800-users Digest, Vol 127, Issue 2)

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

On Fri, 17 May 2024 at 10:41, Chris Chiesa <chr...@gm...> wrote:

> Another issue is that somewhere between five and twelve years ago I wrote
> a massive, probably several hundred line, summary of a whole slew of issues
> I had noticed with Atari800 v2.2.1, and either never finished-and-sent it,
> or *did *send it and got told to break it up into multiple separate
> messages -- and *that *has *definitely not *ever happened.  It's still
> buried in an old to-do list and possibly somewhere in my Drafts folder here.
>
Feel free to repost it.


> If it doesn't happen in v4.0.0, it definitely will in v5.0.0.  But v5.0.0
> had other annoyances so I didn't spend much time in it.
>
As the sluggish keyboard has been fixed, feel free to share any other bugs
/ annoyances you have found in 5.0.0.

I have been experiencing that at odd moments even in v2.2.1, for 25+ years
> now.  It eventually goes away (maybe even with a simple hard reset, but I
> don't recall).  But you're supposed to be able to lock CAPS, and lock CTRL
> (so you can type graphics characters with a single keystroke),
> independently (and it doesn't seem to make any sense to ask what it would
> mean to lock *both *CAPS and CTRL "at the same time").
>
Seems to work ok for me in the latest builds.

In short, there are probably a dozen or more "little things" that aren't
> quite 100% right in Atari800, but it's in my nature to simply accept things
> as they are, without complaining, so I may well simply never have thought
> to mention them to anybody.
>
Feel free to report them, that's the only way they can get fixed.

if there's a standard "how to build it" document somewhere, somebody can
> certainly email me either the document itself, or a link to it, outside of
> this mailinglist.
>
Assuming you are looking to make a Windows build:
https://github.com/atari800/atari800/blob/master/DOC/BUILD.windows. I used
this document and https://github.com/HolyBlackCat/quasi-msys2 on my Linux
to create Windows executables. It was quite painless.

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