Re: [M100] RetroChallenge

2015-06-30 Thread Shaun M. Wheeler
Oh heck no, I've just calmed down a little! On Jun 29, 2015 11:17 PM, Flow gmail flowcharles...@gmail.com wrote: Shaun, Surely after all these years you haven't lost confidence in your old alias ! Gene Corrigan flowcharles...@gmail.com On Jun 29, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Shaun M. Wheeler

Re: [M100] RetroChallenge

2015-06-30 Thread Yorgle
That's not quite it. You may be thinking of another one For this one the idea is to do something with retro/older computers. Use them, sure, but learn a language, write software, restore something. Make an add on for something you have. Head to the site and read through what's there and what

Re: [M100] Time Minder

2015-06-30 Thread Kurt McCullum
I found it. Time minder pulls all three bytes from the clock chip and places them in memory. Then it builds the calendar for the selected month. Finding the year and adding 100 was the easy part. For the display error I kept looking for 19 so I could change it to 20 but that would be two bytes.

Re: [M100] RetroChallenge

2015-06-30 Thread VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN
Sounds a lot like what I've been doing for the last 30 years... ;-) Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus Jan-80 @ work( - @ ) --.ooo--(_)--ooo.--- -Original Message- From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of Scott Lawrence Sent:

Re: [M100] Time Minder

2015-06-30 Thread Ron Wiesen
Hello Kurt: It pulls the Year, Month and Day values from the clock chip but then does it's own calculations. This makes leap days valid. As I recall, the clock chip does not express February 29 on leap days because it does not incorporate leap years within its date algorithm. So when a