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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: pan1k on September 26, 2008, 05:53:33 PM

Title: A thought occurred to me..
Post by: pan1k on September 26, 2008, 05:53:33 PM

Now that we have clockports available for most Amiga models, why hasn't anyone come up with a small clip-on battery for a clockport? I'm tired of resetting my clock, and i've got no soldering skills to put a new battery in.

Title: Re: A thought occurred to me..
Post by: Zac67 on September 26, 2008, 06:50:40 PM

Huh? You mean just the battery on the clockport? What's that supposed to achieve? The battery needs to supply the onboard clock chip. Or do you mean a new clock chip + battery? That's not gonna work as long as the ROM doesn't know about it, you'd need a piece of software for user-startup or similar.

Title: Re: A thought occurred to me..
Post by: Orjan on September 26, 2008, 07:31:23 PM

You mean something like this?

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=748

Title: Re: A thought occurred to me..
Post by: TheGoose on September 26, 2008, 07:57:34 PM

Yep I had one of those for years, DKB. I wish I had it now. I just threw it one day in a big clean.

This would be "easy" to re-produce. Looks like you could make a DIY kit in a bag of parts and sell that.

Title: Re: A thought occurred to me..
Post by: delshay on September 26, 2008, 08:12:35 PM

or if anyone is very good at soldering,just add it to the motherboard if you can find the parts. if i remember the space is for a clock ( correct me if im wrong ).

Title: Re: A thought occurred to me..
Post by: pan1k on September 26, 2008, 08:35:07 PM

I meant something like DKB's Clock. It should be easy to produce.

Title: Re: A thought occurred to me..
Post by: Hodgkinson on September 26, 2008, 09:49:28 PM

I've built one from scratch (If it's what you mean)...  :-D
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1558

Follow the link in my last post for a much better (And larger) photo.


Hodgkinson.