Re: [Atari800-users] Colleen 4.3.1 released

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

On St, 2026-07-29 at 22:57 +0100, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> I noticed I could not type the number 2

if you were on a desktop PC I'd suggest you to check your keyboard
joystick mapping (as that one can "eat" key presses) but on Android I
have no idea why this happened to you. Can you try pressing all other
keys eventually? The Atari OS's internal SELF TEST is ideal for that.

> Google Pixel 7, Android 17

Google Pixel 6 and the same OS here, "2" works OK.

> I noticed that if I tapped "RESET", the button in the UI lit up,
> but nothing happened.  I had to tap and hold for a moment for
> it to regsiter (warm start).
> 
> But then I noticed if I held it too _long_, it would fully
> reboot the Atari (cold start).

Yeah, this is a feature from the original Colleen. It's quite cool but
probably not well documented. I also figured it out by trial-and-error.

> I'd also still love to see "BREAK" and "INVERSE VIDEO" (Fuji)
> keys among the console keys.  (I had to resort to "RESET" to stop
> my program, but then totally _lost_ my program after accidentally
> holding it down too long.)

I get it but these keys are clearly not console keys. The BREAK and
INVERSE are just regular keys that are missing from the Android
keyboard. Maybe we could use some special keys from the Android
keyboard (like the "pi" or "square root" sign) and map them as the
BREAK and INVERSE keys?

> Unfortunately, I don't have much time (or inclination) to play
> with it much more at the moment.  That's my feedback so far,
> though!

Thanks! I was most curious about users' experience after hiding of the
Android navigation keys that are the most (in)visible change of 4.3.1
(compared to 4.3.0). I suppose full screen games hide those buttons too
and people are OK with it so they should be OK with Colleen hiding them
as well but I just wanted to be (more) sure.

Petr