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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: blanning on November 13, 2009, 03:22:51 AM

Title: clocks, clock ports, and subways
Post by: blanning on November 13, 2009, 03:22:51 AM

I'm considering getting a subway for my 1200.  There's already this thing in the clock port:

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

The pictures i've seen of the subway make me think it doesn't have a clock on it.  I also have a CSA 12-gauge, which I think has no clock.  Should I lose the clock?

brian

Title: Re: clocks, clock ports, and subways
Post by: AmigaMance on November 13, 2009, 05:49:02 AM

Well, you are thinking of buying a subway. I suppose that you have an accelerator or at least a memory expansion installed? These cards has a RTC on them, usually..

Title: Re: clocks, clock ports, and subways
Post by: Gulliver on November 13, 2009, 12:44:49 PM

Dont worry, just buy the subway, sell your DKB "The Clock".
The solution is to run somewhere at your startup-sequence/wbstartup a program that connects to a time server in internet to get the actual date and time from over there. Programs that do that are:
http://aminet.net/comm/tcp/facts.lha
http://aminet.net/util/time/NTPSync.lha

Good luck!

Title: Re: clocks, clock ports, and subways
Post by: pan1k on November 13, 2009, 03:09:38 PM

If you sell it, I will purchase the DKB clock!

Title: Re: clocks, clock ports, and subways
Post by: amigadave on November 13, 2009, 03:48:15 PM

Quote from: blanning;529375

I'm considering getting a subway for my 1200.  There's already this thing in the clock port:

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

The pictures i've seen of the subway make me think it doesn't have a clock on it.  I also have a CSA 12-gauge, which I think has no clock.  Should I lose the clock?

brian

Wow!  Someone actually using the A1200 clockport for a CLOCK!  What a revelation.  I have never heard of such a thing before and never seen a picture of the DKB "The Clock".

Title: Re: clocks, clock ports, and subways
Post by: blanning on November 13, 2009, 04:00:26 PM

Quote from: pan1k;529412

If you sell it, I will purchase the DKB clock!

What's it worth to you?  :-)

I cut the clock battery off of my 2000.  I wonder if I could attach this to the clock port on my buddha board there.

I've been meaning to get both amigas on the network so maybe now's the time for that.  Although I've been considering selling the 2000 (gvp 68030, deneb, buddha) in order to fund a subway and maybe even an better accelerator board for the 1200.  Now that I have the 1200, I probably won't use the 2000 much at all.

brian