Jeff Blakeney wrote:
To: Michael J. Mahon On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:57:06 -0800, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:No, you need to update it regardless. The date is computed by ProDOS for all applications.I think it depends more on the clock driver being used in ProDOS. The Thunderclock driver built into ProDOS, which I believe most clock cards operated like, has to compute the year but the IIgs clock driver does not. I haven't used an 8 bit Apple II with a clock card in quite some time but I know I've never had to patch ProDOS on my IIgs.
Yes, that's true--the clock driver is the relevant part of ProDOS. But the OP asked about a Timemaster II HO, which would use the ProDOS ThunderClock driver with the year table. It's too bad that Apple "standardized" the ThunderClock, with its missing year digits, but since they did so, most other clocks arrange to look like ThunderClocks to ProDOS. Built-in ProDOS support for the IIgs clock was a nice improvement, but it was too different and too late for the 8-bit Apple II world. -michael NadaNet networking for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."