From d6f9c586d11de3aa3c29943b60adeb192145a839 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Pizzolato Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:11:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] SCP: Update several ReadMe files --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++---- Visual Studio Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9980a886..1c7d179b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ A remote console session will close when an EOF character is entered (i.e. ^D or Input character rates reflect the natural character arrival time based on the line speed. #### Video Display Capabilities -Added support for monochrome displays with optional keyboards and mice. -The VAXstation QVSS device (VCB01) simulation uses this capability. -Host platforms which have libSDL available can leverage this functionality. +Added support for monochrome and color displays with optional keyboards and mice. +The VAXstation QVSS device (VCB01) and QDSS device (VCB02) simulations use these capabilities. +Host platforms which have libSDL2 available can leverage this functionality. #### Asynchronous I/O * Disk and Tape I/O can be asynchronous. Asynchronous support exists @@ -506,7 +506,15 @@ The makefile provided requires GNU make, which is the default make facility for ##### Build Dependencies -Some simulators depend on external packages to provide the full scope of functionality they may be simulating. These additional external packages may or may not be included in as part of the standard Operating System distributions. +Some simulators depend on external packages to provide the full scope of +functionality they may be simulating. These additional external packages +may or may not be included in as part of the standard Operating System +distributions. If simulators are being built that could provide more +functionality than the currently installed packages will provide, the build +will succeed with reduced functionality (i.e. limited network or no video +support), but suggestions will be provided as to what could provide full +functionality. + ###### OS X - Dependencies diff --git a/Visual Studio Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt b/Visual Studio Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt index 84bfaf76..a51c29ae 100644 --- a/Visual Studio Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt +++ b/Visual Studio Projects/0ReadMe_Projects.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ produces resulting executables in the BIN/NT/Win32-Debug or BIN/NT/Win32-Release directories (depending on whether you target a Debug or Release build). -These projects, when used with Visual Studio 2008 will produce Release +These projects, when used with Visual Studio 2008, will produce Release build binaries that will run on Windows versions from XP onward. Building with later versions of Visual Studio will have different Windows version compatibility. @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ but have this directory properly located. Network devices are capable of using pthreads to enhance their performance. To realize these benefits, you must build the desire simulator with USE_READER_THREAD defined. The relevant simulators which have network -support are all of the VAX simulators and the PDP11 simulator. +support are all of the VAX simulators, the PDP11 simulator and the various +PDP10 simulators. Additionally, simulators which contain devices that use the asynchronous APIs in sim_disk.c and sim_tape.c can also achieve greater performance by