diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c5d2683..7f16a2b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,6 +47,21 @@ The suite holds the two to being the same machine rather than taking it on trust
 the entire manifest through Voyager as well, with `--headless`, and requires it to satisfy
 every recorded result byte for byte.
 
+**F12 is the reset button**, and it is a button on the case rather than a key the machine
+can see: nothing sends a function key to the console, so nothing can be surprised by one. It
+does exactly what writing to the machine port does - the machine starts the way it started,
+which means the boot chain runs again and finds whatever the disk now says to run.
+
+That is what makes a bare metal program escapable. `Once` puts one in front of the next start
+and deletes the request before jumping, so a demo that has taken the whole machine is one
+keypress away from the system coming back, without closing the window and opening it again.
+It works on a machine that is stuck waiting for a key, too, which is when a reset button
+earns its keep.
+
+**Escape reaches the machine.** Raylib closes a window on Escape unless it is told not to,
+and this machine sends Escape to the console like any other key - so a program reading keys
+could be ended by one of them, taking whatever was in memory with it.
+
 **The screen belongs to the machine, not to the window.** The video device is a tile engine
 on ports 0x30 to 0x3F that brings its own bank of video memory, and it renders into a buffer
 that is a pure function of that memory - so the same program draws the same picture whether
diff --git a/Source/Emulator/io.c b/Source/Emulator/io.c
index 08b0cda..679b8ab 100644
--- a/Source/Emulator/io.c
+++ b/Source/Emulator/io.c
@@ -631,6 +631,18 @@ static uint8_t pendingInterrupts[INTERRUPT_LINE_BYTES];
 // Whether somebody has asked the machine to start over, and taking that request away.
 static int resetWanted = 0;
 
+void requestReset(void) {
+    resetWanted = 1;
+}
+
+void consoleResetInput(void) {
+    consolePushback = -1;
+    consoleEnded = 0;
+    consoleLineLength = 0;
+    consoleLineAt = 0;
+    clearInterrupt(PORT_CONSOLE);
+}
+
 int takeResetRequest(void) {
     int wanted = resetWanted;
     resetWanted = 0;
diff --git a/Source/Emulator/io.h b/Source/Emulator/io.h
index ebcfd4d..68047ee 100644
--- a/Source/Emulator/io.h
+++ b/Source/Emulator/io.h
@@ -306,6 +306,19 @@ void serviceDevices(void);
 // the instruction that asked - the CPU is mid-step and its state is not yet consistent.
 int takeResetRequest(void);
 
+// ---- The button on the front of the case ----
+//
+// A machine has one, and a window is the case. Writing MACHINE_RESET is how a PROGRAM asks;
+// this is how a person does, without needing a program that is willing to listen - which is
+// the whole point of a reset button and the reason the port exists at all.
+void requestReset(void);
+
+// Puts the console's input back to how a machine starts: nothing pushed back, no line half
+// gathered, and NOT at the end of input. Called when the machine starts over, because a
+// console that had run out of input would still have run out afterwards - and a reset that
+// left the keyboard dead would be a reset nobody could use twice.
+void consoleResetInput(void);
+
 void raiseInterrupt(uint8_t port);
 
 void clearInterrupt(uint8_t port);
diff --git a/Source/Emulator/machine.c b/Source/Emulator/machine.c
index 08575c4..9b5d26c 100644
--- a/Source/Emulator/machine.c
+++ b/Source/Emulator/machine.c
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ void machineRunSlice(Machine *m) {
             }
             videoReset();
             consoleHome();
+            consoleResetInput();
             initializeCPU(&m->cpu, Program, Data);
             break;      // Out of this batch; the loop above carries on with a new CPU.
         }
diff --git a/Source/Emulator/voyager.c b/Source/Emulator/voyager.c
index ec55093..5eedbbd 100644
--- a/Source/Emulator/voyager.c
+++ b/Source/Emulator/voyager.c
@@ -126,6 +126,28 @@ static void drainKeyboard(void) {
     }
 }
 
+// ---- The reset button ----
+//
+// F12, because it is a button on the case rather than a key the machine can see: nothing
+// sends a function key to the console, so nothing can be surprised by one. What it does is
+// exactly what writing MACHINE_RESET does - the machine starts the way it started, which
+// means the boot chain runs again and finds whatever the disk now says to run.
+//
+// Which is what makes a bare metal program escapable. Once puts a demo in front of the next
+// start and deletes the request before jumping, so a demo that has taken the whole machine
+// is one keypress away from the system coming back - and nobody has to close the window and
+// open it again to get there.
+static int resetPending = 0;
+
+static void checkResetButton(void) {
+    if (IsKeyPressed(KEY_F12)) {
+        requestReset();
+        // Remembered as well as asked for, so that a machine waiting on a key can be woken
+        // to go and notice it. See voyagerKey.
+        resetPending = 1;
+    }
+}
+
 static void presentFrame(void) {
     // The device turns video memory into pixels; this puts them on the glass. Everything
     // that decides what the screen looks like is in the machine, where the suite can
@@ -170,6 +192,7 @@ static void presentFrame(void) {
     EndDrawing();
     // EndDrawing has just polled, which is the one moment Raylib's queues hold anything.
     drainKeyboard();
+    checkResetButton();
 }
 
 // What the console asks while it is waiting. Presenting from in here is what keeps the
@@ -179,6 +202,19 @@ static int voyagerKey(int mayWait) {
     if (!windowOpen) {
         return CONSOLE_GONE;
     }
+    // ---- The button has to reach a machine that is waiting ----
+    //
+    // A reset is acted on between instructions, and a machine blocked on a key is part way
+    // through one - so pressing the button while a program sits waiting would set the flag
+    // and nothing would ever come along to notice it. Which is precisely the moment a reset
+    // button earns its keep: a program that is stuck is the one you want to get out of.
+    //
+    // So the wait ends. The console treats that as the end of input, which it is for the
+    // machine that is about to stop existing, and the reset puts the console's input back.
+    if (resetPending) {
+        resetPending = 0;
+        return CONSOLE_GONE;
+    }
     // Whatever is already waiting, however long ago it was typed. This is the answer to
     // both questions, and asking it first is what makes a program that polls rarely see
     // every key rather than one in six.
@@ -202,6 +238,8 @@ static int voyagerKey(int mayWait) {
     return keyTake();
 }
 
+
+
 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
     int headless = takeHeadless(&argc, argv);
 
@@ -252,6 +290,13 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         InitWindow(VIDEO_MAX_WIDTH * SCREEN_SCALE, VIDEO_MAX_HEIGHT * SCREEN_SCALE,
                    "Segan Voyager");
         SetTargetFPS(60);
+        // ---- Escape is a byte, not a way out ----
+        //
+        // Raylib closes a window on Escape unless it is told not to, and this machine sends
+        // Escape to the console like any other key. So a program reading keys could be
+        // ended by one of them, taking whatever was in memory with it - which is a poor way
+        // to find out that a default was left as it was found.
+        SetExitKey(KEY_NULL);
         // One texture, updated in place. Making a new one every frame would be a new
         // allocation sixty times a second for a picture that is the same size every time.
         Image blank = GenImageColor(VIDEO_MAX_WIDTH, VIDEO_MAX_HEIGHT, BLACK);