Re: [Atari800-users] Surprise on Google Play

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

On Pá, 2026-06-19 at 16:58 -0500, Steve Boswell wrote:
> I spent a cup of coffee playing with this on a Retroid Pocket 5 
> 
> It works well, the games I tried all loaded fine and were playable.

Sounds great.

> I couldn’t get it to map all my controls to the controls on the
> device, The dpad and a fire button mapped fine, but I couldn’t find a
> way to map the start button to start or any of the other buttons

the mapping implemented in SDL version of Atari800 recently is needed
in the Colleen/Android port as well.

> I wish it didn’t have to move the firmware files to private storage,
> why not just let people point to the folder the files are in and load
> them from there? 

Because Android does not allow programs written in C to access files in
the public storage. It used to allow that but that was more than 10
years ago but nowadays it's not possible.

By the way, the new file selector allows you to access your Google
drive so now you can simply copy Atari disk images and files to your
Google drive and then load them in the Colleen directly from the
internet :-)

> The on screen console buttons had to be set to never fade as I
> couldn’t find any way to make them reappear once they were gone.

tapping in upper right corner should make the console keys overlay
visible but in Colleen 4.3.0 I decided to make it always visible not
only in portrait orientation but also in the landscape one.

> Are there any command line arguments that I can use to get ES-DE to
> launch Colleen directly by picking a game from the list?

what's ES-DE? I don't think Android supports command line arguments but
I have something way better in the works.

Petr

> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> > On Jun 19, 2026, at 14:26, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 09:48:40PM +0200, Petr Stehlík wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > 
> > > I've got a nice surprise for you — something I've been working
> > > hard on
> > > recently:
> > > 
> > > https://atari800.github.io/Atari800forAndroid.html
> > > 
> > > This is just the beginning. Stay tuned for more exciting updates!
> > 
> > Hi Petr, thanks for all your efforts!  I swore I saw you (or
> > someone?)
> > mention that they used a Dual Joy USB with their Android device
> > to control Colleen.
> > 
> > I just tried on my Pixel 7, connecting a USB-C-to-USB-C cable
> > between
> > it and my Dual Joy, then plugged in an Atari joystick.  Alas,
> > nothing
> > seemed to happen, either in Colleen (tried a simple "PRINT
> > STICK(0)"
> > BASIC program), or in the Android OS in general (no notifications
> > about a newly-attached device).
> > 
> > I admit, I've never connected a controller to an Android phone
> > before. :)
> > 
> > Did I totally misremember?
> > 
> > 
> > Also, when I enabled "Keyboard Joystick" input, and then navigated
> > into "Configure Keyboard" in Colleen's settings interface, I notice
> > that the top and bottom entries that appear -- "Up" (I assume), and
> > "Reset Action Mappings" -- are overlapping other UI elements:
> > "Configure Keyboard" title at the top, and the OS's back/home/apps
> > (triangle, circle, square) virtual buttons at the bottom. :-/
> > 
> > 
> > Finally, the help docs
> > (https://atari800.github.io/Atari800forAndroid.html)
> > mention that an app called "Wiimote Controller" needs to be
> > installed
> > to be able to use Wiimotes via Bluetooth.  Unfortunately, I'm not
> > finding
> > that app in the Google Play Store. :-/
> > 
> > Was it this? https://android.ccpcreations.com/wiicontroller
> > The download link is a 404 at the Play Store website.
> > The site suggests it doesn't work on Android 4.2 or higher,
> > which is already 13 years old now.
> > 
> > Perhaps the help docs need to be updated?
> > 
> > 
> > Finally, since the first thing I did was play with BASIC, I
> > immediately
> > wished I could access the [Break] key.
> > 
> > Thanks again!
> > 
> > -bill!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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