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A thought occurred to me..
« 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.
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Re: A thought occurred to me..
« Reply #1 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.
 

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Re: A thought occurred to me..
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2008, 07:31:23 PM »
\\"Memory is like an orgasm. It\\\'s a lot better if you don\\\'t have to fake it.\\"
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Re: A thought occurred to me..
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: A thought occurred to me..
« Reply #4 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 ).
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Re: A thought occurred to me..
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2008, 08:35:07 PM »
I meant something like DKB's Clock. It should be easy to produce.
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Re: A thought occurred to me..
« Reply #6 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.


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