Hatari Alt+F4 not working

[Qumojo]

Hi, I am enjoying this fantastic emulator but I am having some trouble with how this emulator seems to be coded.

What I mean is that I can't seem to be able to do an Alt+F4 to exit the emulator, even a simple alt+ctrl+sup sometimes to be off, and when working I get the mouse stuck in the middle. This is specially important to me as I run it using BigBox. Sometimes altgr+q just doesn't work. And I must have a way to force exit the emulator at any point.

As well as binding keys to my controller. Usually for some games in AtariST you will only need the Return and space key as basic keys to start playing that game. I can't manage to bind them to my controller, tried x360ce, Ahotkey and others. To me, it seems that Hatari has been coded as a modal window soft and there is no much else to do.

Any suggestion on how to deal with it? Is it just me and I am not seeing that tick option that allows the binding and alt+f4 functions?

Thanks and keep up the great work.

[Eero Tamminen]

You didn't say which OS and desktop you're using. Hatari is developed on Linux (that's what Hatari developers have).

If you have a desktop keyboard shortcut for Alt-F4, and it doesn't work, I don't think that's a Hatari problem, but likely a bug in your desktop. It might be a bug also in your libSDL version, depending on what even that key is supposed to provide.

(You didn't say which version of libSDL you're using, I have libSDL v2.0.5 and with that, Alt-F4 closes Hatari just fine in XFCE desktop.)

What's BigBox?

AltGr-Q works fine for me as long as Hatari doesn't have a dialog open, in that case you just have to close the dialog first (e.g. with Enter). There are some rare cases where Hatari's outputting errors about what's running inside emulation so fast that it's not very responsive. Do you see any such output when you run Hatari from console? (if you're using Windows, console requires giving Hatari -W option)

If you want your controller to output key codes, that's something you need to do outside of Hatari. I think there are some programs on Linux to do that.

[darwinmac]

It appears the OP is using Windows. Big Box (https://www.launchbox-app.com/big-box) appears to be a front end that can be used to run games from different emulators.

I haven’t run the Windows version of Hatari for awhile. I don’t know if there’s a problem with using Alt-F4 to close Hatari.

Bob C

[dhedberg]

I can confirm that Hatari does not respond to the Alt+F4 shortcut in Windows. AltGr+Q works.

[ThorstenOtto]

Such Alt-combinations are handled differently on Windows. But that's not Hatari's fault, i guess that can't be easily fixed without changing SDL.