Re: [Atari800-users] almost ready for a new release, but ... (joysticks)

[Petr S. <pst...@so...>]

On Čt, 2025-07-31 at 13:28 +0200, Petr Stehlík wrote:
> The last missing thing in this area is to allow user to select (in
> UI) which SDL joystick (recognized by name) will be mapped to which
> Atari port. Anyone willing to implement that? :-)

FYI, I have worked on that for 9 hours straight yesterday (SILK
meetup). Two outcomes: the current SDL implementation of joystick input
is crazy and needs to be overworked much more, and there are other
weirds bugs in SDL2 and Atari800 which require a lot more work to fix
before eventual release :-/

Petr

> 
> When Atari800 is starting it maps the SDL joysticks it finds like 1:1
> to Atari joystick ports, which is often not  what user wants - for
> example output on my host:
> 
> Joystick 0 (CNLohr CH32V003Programmer) mapped to emulated joystick 0
> Joystick 1 (TGZ Controller) mapped to emulated joystick 1
> 
> The "CNLohr" programmer is not a real joystick but it occupies the
> Atari joystick 0 port for me. Somebody in GitHub issues suggested to
> implement a "SDL joystick black list" that would help here but being
> able to map different SDL joysticks to different Atari ports would be
> far more universal and flexible.
> 
> I think it would be reasonable if we modified the UI logic in
> "Controller Configuration" from "Enable keyboard joystick X" "Y/N" to
> 
> "Atari joystick X": and popup-selector that would have "keyboard" at
> first position and other positions would be filled with names of SDL
> joysticks.
> 
> Well, we could even put the "parallel" option into the popup selector
> for joysticks on parallel ports (a feature supported 25+ years ago -
> not sure if it's still in source code).
> 
> And we obviously want to support four joysticks, i.e. te "Atari
> joystick X" would go from 1 to 4. Atari5200 users could be finally
> happy and Atari800/130 would be able to enable "Multijoy4" anytime to
> make use of all four joysticks.
> 
> Please let me know if someone is willing to modify the UI in such a
> way, or suggest a better one.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Petr
> 
> 
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