Interfacing serial RTC chip with serial port

[motorollin]

I've found a Serial Interface Real Time Clock Module. I'm wondering if there's any way to interface it with the serial port on an Amiga. I might then be able to write a simple Blitz Basic app to read the time and date from the serial port and set the Amiga's clock.

Would anybody have any idea if this is possible?

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moto

[motorollin]

The battery on my A4000 was removed before I bought it, and I refuse to put a soldering iron anywhere near it to solder a lithium battery in.

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moto

[motorollin]

Tahoe wrote:
Right; so your on-board RTC is probably running just fine; you just need something to hold the time for you?

Correct.

Tahoe wrote:
Is the "SAVE" button greyed out in Prefs/Time? If not your RTC is working fine and you only need a battery.

Yes, but as I said I don't want to solder a bettery to the motherboard.

Tahoe wrote:
You could ofcourse also sync time with a internet based time source; your miggy would keep time until switched off..

I have done this, but I don't always want to connect to the Internet because it causes problems with WHDLoad.

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moto

[motorollin]

shoggoth wrote:
You'd be better of using the parallel port

With that chip, or a different one?

shoggoth wrote:
and use bit-banging.

I have no idea what that means :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

@InTheSand
OIC, that's what I was planning to do with Blitz.

@Others who have suggested NNTP or soldering battery...
I've already explained why I don't want to do those.

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moto

[motorollin]

Are DI, DO and CLK the only lines which need to connect to the parallel port? And is it as simple as powering the chip and connecting those lines to the port?

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moto

[motorollin]

Great, thanks for the info!

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moto