Re: [Atari800-users] Atari800-users Digest, Vol 140, Issue 1

[Chris C. <chr...@gm...>]

I can't believe we are still fixing bugs in Atari800, thirty years later.
Man, I already thought it was perfect, way back in the 1990s.  :-)

Heck, I'm still running v2.2.1 here, mainly because none of the changes
made since then have addressed anything I've found it necessary to address
-- ironically, though, while neglecting the one area I would have liked to
have seen improved thirty years ago (see below).

All else being equal, I would make the changes I want, myself.
Unfortunately, since the days when I added code to get v1-dot-something
running on DECwindows under VAX/VMS, virtually everything about programming
has changed to the point where I find almost everything about it today
incomprehensible, from the tools to the languages to the mindset -- which
frustrates and angers me -- and I find both Windows and Linux completely
unusable as programming platforms (other than good old Perl), which breaks
my heart.

But what can you do?  Time marches on

Fix printing and P: support, though,  will you?  v2.2.1 still launches an
external commandline every time the P: device is opened -- such as on every
BASIC LPRINT statement!  Talk about crude! You wouldn't believe what I have
to go through, to collect successive lines of printer output into a single
file on the host system -- and then I've had to start writing my own Epson
dot-matrix printer emulator (in Perl) just to see again the output of
certain Atari BASIC programs I wrote in the late 1980s.  If anybody would
care to add a couple of user interface features that would clean this up
entirely, I have some ideas...  If you do it, I might even tentatively try
whatever new version of Atari800 finally incorporated the fixes!

Yeah, I could dining switch to Altirra-with-Fujinet -- but that, too, is
far too complex and I prefer the simplicity of my ancient version of
Atari800.


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> On St, 2026-07-29 at 16:14 +1000, Miro Krop??ek wrote:
> > > Atari800 now has cycle-accurate POKEY interrupt emulation:
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> > - the implemented cycle-exact IRQ had a bug, it was triggered too
> > late or not at all (I have fixed it in master in the meantime)
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> your "fix" actually broke the Project-M that I fixed originally. The
> Acid800 test does not catch that. What game or demo works better after
> your change? Can you improve it so that Project-M works OK again?
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> Petr
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