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- *** About TS
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- The TimeSaver Tickler Utility:
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- In some cases it may be more useful to activate TimeSaver's
- Set Date function by using the more standard approach used by most
- suppliers of Clock devices for the Amiga of putting a small program
- in the s/startup-sequence your boot disk. The utility provided here
- will request the correct time and date from TimeSaver and update the
- internal Amiga Clock. This utility will work in all situations and
- with any combination of settings activated within TimeSaver.
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- The Tickler will get and set the time properly even if the
- TimeSaver is totally turned off (See TimeSaver Manual Pg. 33) and
- doesn't care if the Auto-Date (See TimeSaver Manual Pg. 11), Auto-
- Break (See TimeSaver Manual Pg. 34), Auto-Macro (See TimeSaver Manual
- Pg. 24), Auto-Password (See TimeSaver Manual Pg. 27) or the Screen
- Echo (See TimeSaver Manual Pg. 28) Functions are ON or OFF. And even
- more importantly, the Tickler will work in any s/startup-sequence,
- even if the s/startup-sequence ends the current CLI window.
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- Turn Auto-Break OFF when Using TS.
- Turn Auto-Date OFF when Using TS.
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- *** About TSX
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- The TimeSaver Accuracy Utility:
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- In some cases it is may be desirable to update the Amiga Clock
- with a time that is accurate to the nearest second. The TSX Utility
- will do this by reading the TimeSaver's internal clock until it changes
- to the next minute. This time is then entered into the Amiga through
- the Date Command.
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- Space considerations in the current version of TimeSaver caused
- us to limit TimeSaver's updates to date, hours and minutes (leaving out
- seconds) only. In the next version, greater precision in setting the
- clock will be provided.
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- How TSX works:
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- TSX works by repeatedly reading Timesaver's internal clock. (It
- reads in a new value about twice every second.) When the minute value
- changes, TSX updates the Amiga's clock function. On a day to day basis
- this system should allow +/- one second accuracy. (within the limits of
- the accuracy of the both Timesaver and the Amiga clock functions.
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- Notes on Using TSX:
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- Turn Auto-Break OFF when Using TSX.
- Turn Auto-Date OFF when Using TSX.
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- Put the TSX call as early as possible in the s/startup-sequence.
- Do not use the Timesaver's HELP+F5 function to update the clock.
- TSX may be called at any time just like any other Amiga CLI Command.
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- Random Notes:
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- The Tickler program is an example of the ability of TimeSaver
- to recieve information from the Amiga, as well as send it. In future
- revisions of the TimeSaver's operating system we will do more with
- these abilities.
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- Three planned additions in the next generation of TimeSaver are
- the implementation of Repeating Keys and the ability to up-load and
- download the to and from the 8K RAM on the TimeSaver to allow storage
- of several sets of Macros that can be down-loaded as required for
- different applications. We will also provide either a Macro Editor, or
- a conversion utility that will allow you to either edit the macros or
- convert them to a format that can be used by most text editors to allow
- editing. Edited Macros could then be stored on disk and loaded back into
- the TimeSaver as needed. And finally the date command will be expanded to
- provide one second accuracy by printing out seconds in the Date command.
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- TimeSaver has only 8K of onboard ROM (in the form of an EPROM)
- for storage of the program (operating system) that makes TimeSaver work.
- The current version uses only 4K of the available 8K. (Try doing all the
- tricks TimeSaver does in a 4K program on the Amiga! - Remember a lot of
- that 4K is taken up by text for the ROM Macros and Screen Prompts!) In
- the next generation of TimeSaver we plan to use the entire 8K! So we
- can add some neat features if we could think of any? Care to help us
- out? We'd appreciate your input.
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- Complete source code for the Ticklers is provided herein, and
- the program is placed in the Public Domain. Feel free to write, re-
- write or modify this code in any way.
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- Sincerely,
- Breck & Ed
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