Re: Seiko datagraph

[aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)]

In a previous article, larry@lablues.UUCP (Lawrance A. Schneider) says:

>Has anyone dissamembled the disk?  I know nothing about tearing
>apart a disk, and I find no files listed when I do a catalog with
>either ProSel or Copy II+.  I'd like to see the actual file so
>I could figure out how they are accessing the damn thing and write
>my own driver using ProDos; I'm not a fan of DOS 3.3.  Has anyone
>tried to do this??  If I could just find the damn files, I can do
>the dissambley of same and put ProDos calls where needed.

The Time Trax I disk is some messy special format, but the clock drivers
on the other side are in ProDOS format, I believe. That will give you
the clock itself, but not the watch download stuff.

I do have Time Trax II, which is on a normal ProDOS 3.5, and I did have a
look at some of the code that drives the watch through the joystick port.
Admittedly I didn't try very hard, but it certainly looked like a confusing
pile of code. Considering that the watch downloads work through magnetic
induction, it seems possible (or likely) that the whole thing is a bit
of a kludge.

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