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+++ b/system/sdltrs/README
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ 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.
+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
@@ -20,9 +26,3 @@ nonexistent floppy disc. To recover from this:
See the man page and the documentation at
/usr/doc/sdltrs-$VERSION/html/index.html for further details.
-
-SlackBuild note: the previous version of this build,
-1.2.27+20230518_7dcf4ca9, installed the emulator as "sdl2trs". Now
-that upstream has merged the SDL2 port, there's no need for this, and
-the executable is called sdltrs. If you have any shortcuts or scripts
-using the old name, you'll have to update them.