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diff --git a/system/sdltrs/README b/system/sdltrs/README index 8b6f1c72f8..f3b219e8d0 100644 --- a/system/sdltrs/README +++ b/system/sdltrs/README @@ -1,8 +1,28 @@ +sdltrs (Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P Emulator) + sdltrs is a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Macintosh OSX, Windows and Linux. It has been ported from the excellent X Window Unix emulator xtrs. Instead of using the X-Window system for graphics, it uses the portable SDL library. -A simple sdltrs.desktop file is included that will start sdltrs -with the default options. Read the included documentation after -installation for more information. +This build uses SDL-1.2, which is an older library that performs +better on older and lower-spec machine. If your computer was made +in the last 10 years or so, you probably should be using the SDL-2.0 +build, which is called sdl2trs. It's possible to install both sdltrs +and sdl2trs on the same system without conflict. + +Note: When you start up sdltrs for the first time, it attempts +to boot from floppy disk. If you didn't give either the "-disk0 +/path/to/image.dsk" or "-nofloppy" options on the command line, it +will "hang" with a black screen, because it's trying to boot from a +nonexistent floppy disc. To recover from this: + +- Hold down F10 (TRS-80 Reset) and press Escape (TRS-80 Break key) to + skip the disk boot and enter the ROM BASIC. + +- Press Alt+D to enter the emulator's disk menu, and from there, + either select a bootable disk image for drive 0, or disable the + floppy disk controller. Then press Shift-F10 to reboot the TRS-80. + +See the man page and the documentation at +/usr/doc/sdltrs-$VERSION/html/index.html for further details. |