Tempest Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 I'm having a weird problem with the Atari800 emulator. I use the native Linux version of Atari800 for my 5200 emulation and it usually works great but recently I've noticed that when I'm in Atari 5200 mode the start button (F4) no longer works. All the other 5200 controller buttons seem to work, but not Start. When I switch to any Atari 8-Bit computer the start button (F4) works as expected. The problem is only under 5200 mode. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this? Is there some sort of setup or button mapping I can do? The only thing I can see is that I can assign up/down/left/right and one of the fire buttons to keyboard buttons. I don't see anything specific for the 5200 controller at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 Anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rybags Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Start equates to the 800 console key which the 5200 doesn't have (it's Start buttons are part of the normal kb matrix - the keypad buttons on 5200 controllers will be mapped to normal keyboard keys. I'm not sure if the default mapping will be useful or if you need to customize it to give the keys you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 29 Author Share Posted May 29 It was working before though. I'm not sure how to customize keys in Atari800. I'm not sure you can actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 12 hours ago, Tempest said: It was working before though. I'm not sure how to customize keys in Atari800. I'm not sure you can actually. I think it's a fairly recent change that allows remapping keys. Did this problem start after you upgraded atari800? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 29 Author Share Posted May 29 4 hours ago, zzip said: I think it's a fairly recent change that allows remapping keys. Did this problem start after you upgraded atari800? I just tested it and it works in 5.0 but is broken in 5.2. How do you customize keys? Maybe that's the problem with 5.2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 4 minutes ago, Tempest said: I just tested it and it works in 5.0 but is broken in 5.2. How do you customize keys? Maybe that's the problem with 5.2? Looks like the feature was added in 5.0.0: support for remapping of all function keys (START, SELECT, OPTION etc) I'm not sure how, are there option in the UI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 Possibly the changes were focused on 400/800/XL/XE and forgot to take 5200 controllers into consideration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 29 Author Share Posted May 29 1 hour ago, zzip said: Looks like the feature was added in 5.0.0: support for remapping of all function keys (START, SELECT, OPTION etc) I'm not sure how, are there option in the UI? Not that I can find. I've looked and looked but I can't find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 16 hours ago, Tempest said: Not that I can find. I've looked and looked but I can't find it. I saved out a config file from 5.2.0, there are a bunch of options in it like SDL_START_KEY= and it looks like it takes a code. I'll see if I can find more info. But maybe try a config file created by 5.0.0 and see if it works with 5.2.0? Or if you've been using an older config file, you might need to add those key mappings in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 26 minutes ago, zzip said: SDL_START_KEY On the 5200 the START button is on each controller, there is no START key as per the computers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 30 Author Share Posted May 30 5.0 still works for me so I'm using that right now. I'm not sure if 5.1 has the issue or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 2 minutes ago, Tempest said: 5.0 still works for me so I'm using that right now. I'm not sure if 5.1 has the issue or not. I looked through the source, and if you write out the config file with 5.2.0, the code it assigns to SDL_START_KEY will be the SDL code for F4 so the resulting config file should be correct. It also occurs to me that if F4 only fails in 5200 mode it might be a bug since there doesn't seem to be a separate 5200 mapping. I looked on their github and there are some post-5.2.0 changes to input handling, but it's not clear it fixes this issue. But I agree that unless you need a change in 5.1 or 5.2, then might as well stick to 5.0.0 for now (I can't think of any that changes that have improved my user experience recently) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 30 Author Share Posted May 30 3 hours ago, zzip said: I looked through the source, and if you write out the config file with 5.2.0, the code it assigns to SDL_START_KEY will be the SDL code for F4 so the resulting config file should be correct. It also occurs to me that if F4 only fails in 5200 mode it might be a bug since there doesn't seem to be a separate 5200 mapping. I looked on their github and there are some post-5.2.0 changes to input handling, but it's not clear it fixes this issue. But I agree that unless you need a change in 5.1 or 5.2, then might as well stick to 5.0.0 for now (I can't think of any that changes that have improved my user experience recently) What is the SDL code for F4? I think I tried making a fresh config file with 5.2 and it still had the problem. I assume these SDL key assignments are something new in 5.1 or 5.2 and it's missing from my 5.0 config file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted May 30 Share Posted May 30 3 minutes ago, Tempest said: What is the SDL code for F4? I think I tried making a fresh config file with 5.2 and it still had the problem. I assume these SDL key assignments are something new in 5.1 or 5.2 and it's missing from my 5.0 config file? Supposedly the keymapping feature was added in 5.0 according to the changelog The SDL key code for F4 is named SDLK_F4, but it's actual value is defined as the result of a function: #define SDLK_F4 SDL_SCANCODE_TO_KEYCODE(SDL_SCANCODE_F4) SDL_SCANCODE_F4 has a decimal value of 61 according to this: https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDLScancodeLookup So there's a chance that the keycode is also 61, or its value might be platform dependant which is why they use a function. But if you saved a config file from 5.2.0, the value it puts in SDL_START_KEY will be the correct decimal value of SDLK_F4 since it's hard-coded that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 30 Author Share Posted May 30 The config file I have from my 5.0 installation has this: SDL_START_KEY=285 This does not work with 5.2 for some reason. Is that what's in the 5.2 config file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted May 31 Share Posted May 31 16 hours ago, Tempest said: The config file I have from my 5.0 installation has this: SDL_START_KEY=285 This does not work with 5.2 for some reason. Is that what's in the 5.2 config file? I checked mine last night and 285 is what I got. It should be correct since the code that writes the config file just dumps the value of SDLK_F4. I'm thinking it might be a bug. Maybe try changing it to something else and see if you can use the new key to start 5200 games, or if the new key has the same behavior? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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