Re: Thunderclock Plus support in Jace: Updated

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:07:06 PM UTC-6, BLuRry wrote:
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> > >> Only thing is that I don't know of programs that actually use this, any
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> > > The utility disks of clock cards usually contained programs that would
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> > The TimeMaster II utility disk has such a clock program that uses
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> > http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=25296
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> Thanks for the tip -- seems that TimeMaster uses different I/O port locations so the code just runs in a loop.  Still, it seems that TimeMaster is similar enough that it could be altered to work with ThunderClock.
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There are some thunderclock disks on Asimov (I just didn't know where to find them before).  Seems that the interrupt support isn't working perfectly but it probably doesn't matter for most software anyway.  I'll look into it some other time.