[Coco] Watch-NitrOS-9 Cheap Clock.zip (Watch (Stephen Fischer) (OS-9).zip)

[Stephen Fischer]

What hardware, in 1987 RTC were very rare and expensive.

The program does read the time from watch.inf and will create a new one 
with:

* default time
L019A    fcb   $57,$05,$1b,$0c,$01 (May 27, 1987 12:01)

That needs to be changed to today, at least this year!

But I am chasing a more serious bug:

Deleting watch.inf sets the time to the default perhaps even when you 
change the year after running it once and then:

Just changing the first byte from $57 to $13 using DED and then 
rerunning I get March 19,1919.

Bill Nobel is hot on the trail, a "20.19.2" version likely is needed.

More beta testers might have caught this bug.

I was very careful to change only the ASCII text.I thought it was a good 
plan. But then something from 1987

If anyone wants the disassembly just e-mail me.

SHF

On 3/19/2019 7:04 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> I see the problem. I assumed that the program read the time from 
> "hardware". Instead the program seems to read the time from watch.inf.
> watch.inf in the archive is 13 03 12 12 2f 00 and that gives Mar 18.
> After resetting the clock to the 19th the .inf reads 13 03 13 12 2f 00 .
> 
> Robert
> 
> Stephen Fischer wrote:
>> Did you press Enter and then enter date -t to check?
>>
>> Change the date using the up and down arrows?
>>
>> Use an emulator that messes up. (I only use VCC 1.42)
>>
>> Dump "watch.inf" or look at it using ded, what are the values.
>>
>> I just checked again using "nos96809l2v030300coco3_80d.dsk", the 
>> original version offered with VCC.
>> I don't think any changes were made to NitrOS-9 since that would 
>> affect the clock setting.
>>
>> The watch.inf file needs to be in the root /DD, /D0, /H0...
>>
>> I think that it is not created if missing. I used it for thirty years 
>> on every boot disk I created
>> since getting it. My OS-9 boots of course display the year 
>> incorrectly. Until Watch.inf is updated
>> by pressing enter is is not rewritten with the new date time.
>>
>> $13 $03 $12 $12 $2f ("20" 19, 03, 18, 47) The "20" is not 
>> in the watch.inf file. As days
>> pass the release watch.inf file will become more out of sync with real 
>> date and time.
>>
>> SHF
>>
>> On 3/19/2019 4:20 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
>>> There does seem to be a problem with the code on this disk. I tested 
>>> it with MAME/MESS and VCC
>>> today, the 19th. The program said it was the 18th while the time on 
>>> the Windows disk was correctly
>>> the 19th.
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>> Stephen Fischer wrote:
>>>> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Utilities/Watch%20((OL)%20A_Nani_Mouse)%20(OS-9).zip 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is the new name in the color computer archive.
>>>>
>>>> YMMV as the Facebook "Tandy Color Computer OS-9 / NITROS-9" File 
>>>> Name is:
>>>>
>>>> "Watch-NitrOS-9_Cheap_Clock.dsk"
>>>>
>>>> Who knows what the NitrOS-9 EOU name will be.
>>>>
>>>> SHF
>>>>
>>>> On 3/19/2019 12:08 PM, Stephen Fischer wrote:
>>>
>>
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