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3 Invoking the emulators

The names of the available emulators are:

You can run each of them by simply typing the name from a shell. If you want to run them from another application (e.g. a window manager or some other sort of program launcher) you should always run them from a terminal window such as xterm or rxvt, as a lot of debugging information is printed and the built-in monitor will be run in there. For example, you could do 

xterm -e x64

3.1 Command-line options used during initialization

There are several options you can specify on the command line. Some of them are used to specify emulation settings; they will be described in detail later (see section 6 Settings and resources for a complete list). The other ones, instead, are used only to initialize the emulator:

-help
-?
List all the available command-line options and their meaning.

-default
Set default resources (see section 6 Settings and resources). This will override all the settings specified before, but not the settings specified afterwards on the command line.

-autostart IMAGE
Autostart `IMAGE' (see section 3.2 Autostarting programs from the command-line).

-1 NAME
Attach `NAME' as a tape image file.

-8 NAME
-9 NAME
-10 NAME
-11 NAME
Attach `NAME' as a disk image to device 8, 9, 10 or 11.

3.2 Autostarting programs from the command-line

It is possible to let the emulator autostart a disk or tape image file, by simply specifying its name as the last argument on the command line; for example 

x64 lovelygame.x64.gz

will start the C64 emulator, attaching `lovelygame.x64.gz' as a disk image and running the first program on it. You can also specify the name of the program on the fisk image by appending a colon (`:') the name itself to the argument; for example 

x64 "lovelygame.x64.gz:run me"

will run the program named `run me' on `lovelygame.x64.gz' instead of the first one.

Using the command-line option -autostart is equivalent; so the same result can be obtained with 

x64 -autostart "lovelygame.x64.gz:run me"

See section 5.5 Using disk and tape images for more information about images and autostart.

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