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Re: Contiki 2.4 binary release for Retrocomputing



On 9/29/2010 1:01 AM, Oliver Schmidt wrote:
Hi Michael,

So a NSC *is* already used (at least indirectly via ProDOS) by the
cc65 C library.

Good! :-)

I agree--a very appropriate way to deal with time().

:-)

The con's:
- No seconds

Not so good! :-(

IIRC, the seconds are available in the $200 buffer at a well-known ;-)
location after a time call, depending on the particular clock driver.

Yes, bu the whole idea of implementing time() based on ProDOS was to
abstract from the actually used clock hardware...

I wasn't suggesting that you use this information, but that the
OP might find it useful, since he presumably has some specific
clock, together with a need for precision timing.  ;-)

-michael

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