[comp.sys.mac] Supercharged clock

d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (Sven (Sciz) Axelsson) (06/29/89)

I have a very strange problem with my Mac and I wonder if anyone else has
encountered this - or even has a solution for it.

I have a Dove MaraThon accelerator board installed in my SE and, wow, does
it accelerate! Almost all utilities that accesses the system clock starts
getting crazy times from a clock that runs about 3 times as fast as it should.
It isn't the clock chip itself that speeds up, so the question is - why doesn't
programs get the time directly from the clock chip?

It is very notable with some screensavers (Moire, Pyro, FadeToBlack) that
displays a running clock on the screen. In there cases it is merely irritating,
but the same thing happens with MPW which puts crazy creation times on its
files which eventually screws things up for the Make utility.

Can anything be done about this (apart from removing the accelerator)?


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ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) (07/04/89)

Have you tried calling Dove?

						Tim Smith