[Coco] Nitros9 and Smartwatch

[Arthur Flexser]

My suspicion is that the problem lies in the SmartWatch's being in ROM
slot 2 of the Disto controller.  I used to have a Disto Super
Controller (4 ROM slots), and to switch slots, you poked a certain
address ($FF41?) and pressed the reset button.

Why not try the SmartWatch in the first ROM slot to see if that makes
a difference? You can leave the cover off the controller for purposes
of the test, so you'll at least know if that's the source of your
problem.  If it is, you might be able to cure it by patching in the
correct ROM slot switching poke prior to attempting to read the clock.

Art

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 8:54 PM, piperfox74 <piperfox74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks.
>
> I purchased a DS1216 piggyback to use as an RTC with my CoCo 3 (6309, Triad 512K) and patched MPI + CoCoSDC/DriveWire/Disto Mini-Controller.
>
> I think I figured out how to create a new Nitros9 boot disk with the clock2_smartwatch module replacing clock2_dw, and I believe I was able to correctly move the getclk, swread and swset executables into my execution dir on the new bootdisk. However, once booted from the disk, executing getclk causes either a hard freeze or even garbage to appear on screen. swread and swset both say no clock found.
>
> I have the Smartwatch inserted into the second EPROM slot in the Disto controller, which I have in MPI slot 4. Since there’s not enough room to piggyback a DECB ROM, the Smartwatch carrier is just empty. I’ve heard that should work. The Disto controller ROM switch is set correctly to the Smartwatch slot.
>
> Slot 1 of the MPI has the CoCoSDC. I also have DriveWire connected. The MPI is set to Slot 1, to boot into SDC-DOS. I boot Nitros9 from my newly created, Smartwatched boot disk. THe time comes up as question marks and zeros. I then try the various commands to work with the smartwatch (are these commands documented anywhere?), but they fail as described.
>
> Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Christopher
>
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