[Atari800-users] Atari800 v6.1.0 released

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

Hi,

I have just released version 6.1.0 to celebrate the summer solstice!

There are two minor but hopefully useful changes:

1) In the F1 menu, the "Save configuration" option is no longer buried
in the "Emulator Configuration" submenu and is now available directly
from the root menu. This had been annoying me for a long time.

2) The Alt+J hotkey, which used to switch between joysticks (a hack
introduced to work around the limitations of joystick assignment), now
opens the joystick configuration directly.

I spent whole sunny day working on automatic builds of binary packages.
Almost there:

https://github.com/atari800/atari800/releases/tag/ATARI800_6_1_0

Binaries for MS-Windows have some extra Windows specific fixes so are
more like v6.2.0. I know about the missing app icon, don't report it,
please.

The binary for MacOS is completely untested. Sorry, we have only Linux
machines at home. Somebody please help me improve the GitHub workflow
that builds the dmg or at least test the current package and let me
know what's missing.

The Linux AppImage I tried to make compatible with older systems and
wasted a lot of time on this. In the end it's missing PNG compression
so I'll be fixing that for next release.

In general you wouldn't believe how hard it is to support 32-bit
operating systems in 2026. Does anybody actually still runs a 32-bit
MS-Windows or Linux or MacOS today?

Petr