Clock
Chuck,
The battery backed clock…obviously is a piece of hardware inside
you Amiga. Among the several commands that it will accept is one to stop
working. Errant programs can accidently set that condition.
SetClock, before it reads the clock, checks to see if it is
"ticking" and if it's not…it presumes it isn't there (such as in an
unexpanded A500) and reports same.
Unfortunately, in the 1.3 version of SetClock (but not the 1.2 or
1.3.2 versions), it performs the same check before it will do a reset
(which will start it "ticking" again). Thus, if the clock is stopped, the
1.3 version of SetClock won't start it again….which is what the RESET
option was supposed to do. Obviously not real smart of SetClock. That's
why the 1.3.2 version exists…it fixes that situation.
Don