Re: [Atari800-users] multiple topics from Atari800-users Digest, Vol 139, Issue 3

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

Apologies for possible screwed up inclusion /quoting prefix syntax in the
following; I haven't had an emailer that does that for me since about 1995.
What are you guys using?

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026, 9:09 AM  (etc.)

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> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Atari800-users digest..."
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Apologies for forgetting to do that on my last four or five rapid-fire
responses; I always forget. (And sometimes I can't remember the subject
long enough to edit the subject line!)

This would be easier if I could get the server to send me the individual
messages rather than just the Digest --but, as I've said five or ten times
over the last few decades, I haven't been able to each the server to change
that setting in twelve or fifteen years now.  And I never use this evening
account when I occasionally stumble into it by accident.I always twenty or
thirty Digest messages waiting for me to reply to.  You think this is
long?  This is a short note that i'm whipping off while I have a few
moments, because I don't have time to REALLY dig in.

Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: try Project-M on Atari800 v7.1.0 (Petr Stehl?k)
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Dumb question: what's Project-M?

   2. Colleen 4.3.0 and Atari800 7.1.1 released (Petr Stehl?k)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:33:25 +0200
> From: Petr Stehl?k <pst...@so...>
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> [...]
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> BTW, I have contacted the Debian maintainer of the Atari800 package so
> hopefully a new version will appear in the repository sometime soon.
> I'll continue providing my own deb packages in the download area of
> GitHub releases.
>

I'm still on Windows 10, but Windows 11 is a travesty and I refuse to use
it or anything after it.  Therefore, in addition to my inquiry 10 years ago
about how to build Atari800 from source on Windows, I will now need to know
how to build it from source on Linux as well.  Are there concise, complete,
"Explain like I'm 5" instructions already written up, available online
somewhere, due both platforms?  If not comma if they are incomplete or
unclear comma i'm just going to wind up back here anyway comma so if it's
easier just to give me the whole rundown right here and now comma please do
so.  Maybe I will get around to it before civilization collapses and takes
all of this away with it (which I fear could start in about three weeks).

I also need to learn GitHub at some point... *SIGH*  Boy... I leave you
guys alone for 30 years and you go and complicate the **** out of
everything...


Message: 2

Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:01:57 +0200
> From: Petr Stehl?k



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In Colleen don't forget to try opening an executable file or a disk
> image directly from your Google drive. It makes it easier than copying
> Atari files onto your phone/tablet.
>

Wow.  I haven't even thought of Colleen since I first got a tablet, which
would have been very shortly before I got my first smartphone;  call it
maybe 2008?  I found Colleen unusable at the time, but hopefully so did
enough other people who could do something about it.  So I'll bet it's much
better now; I'll have to try it again.  I trust allowances have been made
for the different geometry and smaller size of today's phone screens as
opposed to that early tablet, and will try not to fret before I've seen it.