Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!MTUS5.BITNET!JEMCCABE From: JEMCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: DCLOCK & IKBD functions Message-ID: <8711300600.AA16603@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 00:58:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8711300600.AA16603 Posted: Mon Nov 30 00:58:00 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Dec-87 23:03:43 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 34 Date: 30 November 1987, 00:47:09 EST From: Jim McCabe JEMCCABE at MTUS5 To: INFO-ATARI16 at SCORE.STANFORD.EDU Subject: DCLOCK & IKBD functions [ sigh ] To the kind person who sent me DCLOCK (no need to name names, especially since I misplaced it anyway... :) -- it does NOT use the IKBD time functions. Thanks anyway... It looks like a nice program, I'll try it out on a friend's ST soon (mine is mono.) Can someone PLEASE post to the net about how to use the IKBD functions? The Abacus ST Internals book tempts me with very specific descriptions of the keyboard packet structures and IKBD commands, but never mentions how to get them from the processor! I was glancing through ST Peek's and Pokes (in a bookstore) and it said that the time is returned in addresses 3584 through 3589. I tested this out, and it didn't seem to work. Hmm... There must be someone out there who understands how this works. All I want to do is read the keyboard time (it's nicer than GEMDOS's two-second clock.) And also, please make sure any programs you might send actually use the IKBD commands before I spend an hour or so downloading/UUDECODing/unARCing them.... Thanks in advance! Jim McCabe jemccabe @ m - c, if y7