Date   : Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:08:42 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: Web site: Mainly Master 512

In article <000b01c64c1f$8af70720$0301a8c0@...>,
   David Harper <dl.harper@...> wrote:
> Greg Cook wrote:


> >> I'm having a problem with the date, ...
> >> Does anybody else
> >> have this problem and is there a cure?

> The real problem is that the Master host MOS and M512 DOS-Plus react 
> differently to the "millennium bug". When these two bugs interact then we 
> get this mess of dates.

So you want Doomsday (or equivalent) to make the time read right, then a
small patch in the Tube code to stop it writing the date back. Setting the
time and date is part of "command.com" isn't it? So it should be patchable
on disc, else a few pokes to the 6502 side.

I think the PC cards for Risc PCs had a similar problem, and their solution
was to dynamically alter the "autoexec.bat" to set the time every time it
booted, though being floppy based the M512 might end up grinding a hole in
the surface!
Sprow.