Options for SCSI HD and Byteswap for IDE missing from Hatari prefs dialog on macOS

[donapple]

Hello,

I'm using Hatari 2.4.1 on macOS 10.15 and noticed that when I go into the Hatari preferences from the menu there is no option to select a SCSI HD image or enable the "Byteswap" option for IDE disks:

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When I open the Hatari settings dialog via F12 both options are available in the "Hard disks" section however:

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Is there a possibility that the option for selecting a SCSI HD image and to enable "Byteswap" for IDE images could be added to the "Hatari preferences" dialog for the macOS version in one of the next version of Hatari?

Regards,
don apple

[Eero Tamminen]

Yes. Same as with the Hatari Mac UI itself, some Mac user needs to write, test and contribute such feature to Hatari. It should not be hard to do, but Hatari maintainers themselves do not have a Mac (or Windows), so they cannot do it.

[donapple]

Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately my coding knowledge for macOS is close to 0. otherwise I would have already tried to fix this myself and provided a patch. But hopefully somebody else who uses Hatari on macOS is familiar with the code and can create the necessary changes to the code.

BTW. I'm very grateful that you continue to provide current versions of Hatari also for macOS (although I'm a bit surprised that how you can do that if none of the maintainers have a Mac). I'm currently using it to help me with reviving some of my old Atari gear (mainly to create disk images for RaSCSI to be able to boot the old systems without the noisy hard disks).

[cdpjenkins]

I saw this and will try to add this to the Mac UI when I get the chance. The only disclaimer is that I'm not a great Objective C/Cocoa developer (but I'm learning) so I can't give any promises for if/when I'll do it.

[donapple]

I saw this and will try to add this to the Mac UI when I get the chance. The only disclaimer is that I'm not a great Objective C/Cocoa developer (but I'm learning) so I can't give any promises for if/when I'll do it.

Thanks a lot for trying to help to get this fixed

[Eero Tamminen]

BTW. I'm very grateful that you continue to provide current versions of Hatari also for macOS (although I'm a bit surprised that how you can do that if none of the maintainers have a Mac). I'm currently using it to help me with reviving some of my old Atari gear (mainly to create disk images for RaSCSI to be able to boot the old systems without the noisy hard disks).

Mac builds are also provided by the Hatari users, as there's no cross-building support for Mac on Linux...

FYI: Hatari developers provide Windows binaries by cross-building them on Linux with mingw, but those binaries are also tested by Hatari Windows users.

[ThorstenOtto]

Mac builds are also provided by the Hatari users, as there's no cross-building support for Mac on Linux...

But you can still do automated builds using travis or github actions.

[Eero Tamminen]

Mac builds are also provided by the Hatari users, as there's no cross-building support for Mac on Linux...

But you can still do automated builds using travis or github actions.

While Thomas has project at GitHub which tracks Hatari Git with some delay, Hatari project itself is at tuxfamily.org.