DCLOCK & IKBD functions

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From: JEMCCABE
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1987 05:58

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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

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