Interesting. Compare the API guide to coreMac.h. In particular, the latter says: ; Destroyed : All Registers This would be one of the examples of the...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 14, 2008 9:45 pm
... find ... everything. ... It's generally not a problem, but I remember being confused by it at some point, because I had been expecting it (wanted to use it...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 14, 2008 11:39 pm
I was curious, so I tested the sequence of events. It's the following: (P is the app that has the popup, R is the app that's initially running). The number in...
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Wayne Venables
wvenables
Sep 15, 2008 12:10 am
... Does anyone know what the update utility actually does? I downloaded it out of curiosity because of this post but I don't want to run it. It includes the...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 15, 2008 2:53 am
As far as I understand it, the problem was that some watches had a faulty transistor that caused it to report the battery was too low even when it wasn't. The...
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Wayne Venables
wvenables
Sep 15, 2008 4:23 am
The patch includes tucp.dll -- which I assume is how it communicates with the watch. I was disappointed to find that the source code for the Timex Data Link...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 15, 2008 3:50 pm
I agree that it's unfortunate. I get the sense that it might be something Timex uses elsewhere as well, so they didn't want to release it. It could also be...
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Wayne Venables
wvenables
Sep 15, 2008 5:41 pm
... It wouldn't be difficult to replace the tucp.dll with a stub file that just records all the calls and all the data to see what it's doing. But it's not...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 15, 2008 7:30 pm
Well, here's one interesting thing I noticed: the tucp.dll packaged with the updater is different from the one that comes with the Timex software. I'm not sure...
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Wayne Venables
wvenables
Sep 15, 2008 7:42 pm
... I already checked the DLL to see if it exported any new functions, but it doesn't. It might simply be a new version. ... See now that's an interesting...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 16, 2008 4:33 am
... ever tried ... version to ... That's a great idea. In fact, I know that the current watch I have has not had the update run on it, because it displays the...
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jeffryjohnston
Sep 16, 2008 5:01 am
... Question about the EEPROM.. are we sure that all 32k are available for our use.. and if not, perhaps resetting the watch doesn't affect a certain portion...
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jeffryjohnston
Sep 16, 2008 5:07 am
... When I instralled this via Wine, my Ironman.icb is 64 bytes. Can you double check that you weren't looking at the size on disk (i.e. cluster size)? The...
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jeffryjohnston
Sep 16, 2008 5:10 am
... See my other note... 64 bytes :)...
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jeffryjohnston
Sep 16, 2008 5:41 am
Well, it's not very exciting... please pardon the ascii art 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F +----------------------------------------------- ...
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jeffryjohnston
Sep 16, 2008 5:44 am
hahaha EBCDIC, can you tell I program mainframes? I meant BCD....
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Wayne Venables
wvenables
Sep 16, 2008 5:47 am
... Ha! You're right, it is 64 bytes. My bad. Looking at the wrong property. That makes more sense because 4kb is a pretty big patch for this piece of...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 16, 2008 6:45 am
... having ... I ... compare. ... *shakes fist* Damn you, Murphy! About half an hour after I write this, I check my watch and it appears to be dead. It...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 16, 2008 7:30 am
Bah. I really need to stop distracting myself with this stuff and do my other work. Two things. I mentioned Murphy (*glare*) I forgot to add a comment for...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 16, 2008 8:09 am
OK, I got it. Jeff is closest - there's a small portion of the EEPROM (64 bytes) that's reserved for the kernel. These contain some extra- special variables...
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Wayne Venables
wvenables
Sep 17, 2008 2:07 am
... So I started reading that PDF instead of making dinner.. Did anyone notice this little piece of information on the very last page: "The bottom 0x100 bytes...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 17, 2008 4:37 pm
Interesting. I hadn't noticed, and don't know any more than that. Doing a quick search through the ROM, though, I can't find any references to either end of...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 21, 2008 5:08 am
CP, I don't think I ever got a response on these. It might be worth hashing out the ideas, as it might make design simpler. In any case, I took some time the...
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nielesch
Sep 25, 2008 8:00 am
With the timex datalink usb software,we can put in notes upto only 100 characters,is there anyway,like some application or something to put notes exceeding 100...
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nielesch
Sep 25, 2008 8:01 am
with the timex datalink usb software,we can put in notes upto only 100 characters,is there anyway,like some application or something to put notes exceeding 100...
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Paulo Marques
pauloemcasa
Sep 25, 2008 11:06 am
Hi, nielesch ... A few notes: This seems like a question best suited to the users' group and not the developers' group: ...
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jeffryjohnston
Sep 28, 2008 11:14 pm
According to the docs, opcodes 7C and FE (as well as numerous sub-opcodes under the CE and CF opcodes) are "undefined". Before I start messing around, I'm...
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tonsofquestions
Sep 30, 2008 12:43 am
I realized there were unused opcodes, though it's not that surprising; it's hard to use everything on a chip. I'm not aware of anyone looking into it (though...
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jeffryjohnston
Oct 5, 2008 4:16 pm
Are these documentation bugs tracked somewhere?...
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jeffryjohnston
Oct 5, 2008 6:44 pm
... just ... This intrigued me, but I knew I needed to write some code before asking more. I think I'm ready to hear more now :) Here are my questions: 1) By...
