Re: [stella] Awwwwww CRAP!!!!!!

Subject: Re: [stella] Awwwwww CRAP!!!!!!
From: Chris Cracknell <crackers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:28:17 -0400 (EDT)
In article <3.0.1.32.19980916135819.00a03328@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, you wrote:
>At 19:23 14.09.98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>I don't know how I managed to do that trick. But somehow I uploaded the
>>sourcecode for an older version of the clock to Stella instead of the .BIN
>>file. Here's the correct .BIN
>
>I left that version running on my PAL VCS for about 15 minutes.
>It seems to be a bit better than the last version, but it still
>lost several seconds over the time I tried it.
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Must be a PAL thing then. Drats.

On an NTSC 2600 it loses slightly more than 1 second every 20 minutes.
So every 20 minutes there's an adjustment made to give you back a second.
Then every 14 hours it loses another second so there's another adjustment
made there. 

I've had version 3 of the clock up and running on my system for a few
days now and there's been no noticable loss or gain in that time. (Granted
I only have been timing it agains the second hand on my watch, so I don't
know about split second inaccuracies)

I just found out today that Randy had the proper bins in time and everything
is okay on that end. I shipped off the lables so the carts should be 
heading out soon.

I had horrible visions of the bad version of the clock getting out on cart
and everyone wanting to perform unspeakable acts upon my person in revenge.

I'm still a little suprised that people wanted that first clock program
on cartridge (the plain one with the green numbers). I hope they didn't
mind the wait too much. I think it's worth it considering how much jazzier
this version is.

I wonder what the next long weekend is? Probably Thanksgiving (that's October
in Canada). I won't be able to program that weekend either because I'll
have to take the kids to my mom's place for her big turkey dinner.
Oh well, if the clock program sells well it will convince my wife that it's
a good idea to give me some undisturbed time locked up in the basement
so I can finish that V-Pet program. The hardest part of that program has
been finished, 4 or 5 days of uninterupted programming bliss and I'll have
it done.

Say Bob, how have you been doing for programming time since the little one
came on the scene? Write anything new lately? ;)

                                    CRACKERS
                (Why doesn't life have a pause button from hell!!!)

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