ftjlh@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (HARRIS JAY L) (09/03/90)
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Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) (09/05/90)
J harris writes: [the commodedoor] >has a workable aclock available and ports to shove stuff in and out of the >machine. Is there anything like this for the little Ataris? Don't let >a good boy go bad (by buying a CommodeDoor)! Thanks. j harris Ugh, what an awful thought. :) ICD has the RTime-8 clock which keeps time even when the Atari is off. For I/O you can use the serial port, the parallel port, the 850 interface, or even the joystick ports, it all depends on what you want to do. You could also buy other interfaces for the Atari. What is it that you want to do? Charles_K_Hughes@cup.portal.com
ftjlh@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (HARRIS JAY L) (09/06/90)
a timer. The (ugh) C-64 mentioned is one we use at the NPR FM station
to control machines starts, stops, and transponder frequencies. I wrote
the software, all the while thinking, "Gawd ****, I wish I could have
used the 800/130 instead!"
Commodore did make it easier than our friends from Sunnyvale, but the
hardware is JUNK, IMHO, and I've beat on the keyboards a lot. Beyond the
smoke from the flames, tho, I'd like a clock I could check from BASIC, then
shove some number out one of the ports to be decoded (what we do at the
station) by some interface box.
I don't see that atari BASIC has a provision for clock.... does the
ICD cart come with some extended language? I also need info on the ports
of the 800XL and 130XE lines... any help appreciated. Thanks.. jgdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu (Gary Duzan) (09/06/90)
In article <1990Sep6.092043.23702@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> ftjlh@acad3.fai.alaska.edu writes: => I don't see that atari BASIC has a provision for clock.... does the =>ICD cart come with some extended language? I also need info on the ports =>of the 800XL and 130XE lines... any help appreciated. Thanks.. j I believe there is a Z: handler for the clock. You can send XIO calls to the Z: device to read the time. This will also work with plain SpartaDOS (using the jiffy clock) if you load the device driver. The RTime-8 would be much more accurate and wouldn't have to be reset all the time. Alternatively, I believe you can PEEK/POKE the time if you study the manual well enough. Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu _o_ -------------------------- _o_ [|o o|] If you can square, round, or cube a number, why not sphere it? [|o o|] |_O_| "Don't listen to me; I never do." -- Doctor Who |_O_|
Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com (09/08/90)
> Gary Duzan recently wrote, > > In article <1990Sep6.092043.23702@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> ftjlh@acad3.fai. > alaska.edu writes: > => I don't see that atari BASIC has a provision for clock.... does the > =>ICD cart come with some extended language? I also need info on the ports > =>of the 800XL and 130XE lines... any help appreciated. Thanks.. j > > I believe there is a Z: handler for the clock. You can send XIO calls to > the Z: device to read the time. [...] Tell me more about this Z: handler -- is this something specific to the ICD R-Time 8 cartridge, or will it read the software clock (memory locations 18,19,20) on a stock Atari? Does it come with the R-Ttime 8, or is it avail- able as a separate itemn? From ICD? Public domain? I'd be interested in an easily-pollable-from-BASIC clock, myself. Thanks in advance, Gary. (Tell Sunita B. I sent mail to her "new" username, but haven't heard back...) Chris Chiesa Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu (Gary Duzan) (09/09/90)
In article <33658@cup.portal.com> Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes: =>> Gary Duzan recently wrote, =>> =>> In article <1990Sep6.092043.23702@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> ftjlh@acad3.fai. =>> alaska.edu writes: =>> => I don't see that atari BASIC has a provision for clock.... does the =>> =>ICD cart come with some extended language? I also need info on the ports =>> =>of the 800XL and 130XE lines... any help appreciated. Thanks.. j =>> =>> I believe there is a Z: handler for the clock. You can send XIO calls to =>> the Z: device to read the time. [...] => =>Tell me more about this Z: handler -- is this something specific to the ICD =>R-Time 8 cartridge, or will it read the software clock (memory locations =>18,19,20) on a stock Atari? Does it come with the R-Ttime 8, or is it avail- =>able as a separate itemn? From ICD? Public domain? I'd be interested in an =>easily-pollable-from-BASIC clock, myself. => ZHAND.COM comes with the SpartaDOS Construction Set, and probably with R-Time 8 as well (I don't own it). SpartaDOS maintains its own jiffy clock independant of the 18-20 clock. I believe there are a couple PEEKs to read the SpartaDOS time. If you have the R-Time 8, it is used instead of the jiffy clock, so the SpartaDOS clock will be more accurate. This usage doesn't require ZHAND. However, if you are using another DOS, you can access the R-Time 8 with ZHAND, which creates the Z: handler. I believe that you can also use ZHAND to read the SpartaDOS jiffy clock if you don't have the R-Time 8. If you are seriously interested, you should probably call ICD. I don't have my Atari books with me, and I don't even know if ICD still makes the thing. =>Thanks in advance, Gary. (Tell Sunita B. I sent mail to her "new" username, =>but haven't heard back...) => Ok, I'll remind her. =>Chris Chiesa => Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@freezer.it.udel.edu _o_ -------------------------- _o_ [|o o|] If you can square, round, or cube a number, why not sphere it? [|o o|] |_O_| "Don't listen to me; I never do." -- Doctor Who |_O_|