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diff --git a/system/sdltrs/README b/system/sdltrs/README index 773428d847119..698d7b71a21d0 100644 --- a/system/sdltrs/README +++ b/system/sdltrs/README @@ -5,11 +5,18 @@ 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. -Note: When you start up sdltrs for the first time, it attempts to boot -from floppy disk. If you didn't give "-disk0 /path/to/image.dsk" -on the command line (or if you launched it from your desktop's -application menu), it will "hang" with a black screen. Press Alt+D to -enter the emulator's disk menu and either select a bootable floppy -image or disable the floppy disk controller, or else run sdltrs -with the -nofloppy option. See the man page and the documentation at -/usr/doc/sdltrs-1.2.27/html/index.html for further details. +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. |