Date   : Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:44:09 -0000
From   : "David Harper" <dl.harper@...>
Subject: Re: Web site: Mainly Master 512

Ian Wolstenholme wrote (a few days ago):

> All this talk of Master 512s prompted me to dig out my spare one
> which had been sandwiched between my dead MDFS and A3000 for
> about two years!
>
> I've connected up a hard disc with a 20MB partition and it is certainly
> a great improvement on booting from floppy!
>
> I'm having a problem with the date, though, as it likes to think that it's
> 2130, although the time is correct.  If I set the date, it is OK but I
> seem
> to have to do this every time I boot the machine.  Does anybody else
> have this problem and is there a cure?

I have now written a little fix routine for this, and you can find it at
http://www.cowsarenotpurple.co.uk/bbccomputer/master512/software.html#millfix

I have included the source code, for anyone interested. OK, it is not
brilliant programming. It is what happens when one knocks something together
quickly.

David Harper