WHAT'S THE TIME MR SPECTRUM?

by Charles Samson



Although the Spectrum's a wonderful computer and everything, it does

have one major problem. It doesn't display a little clock in the top

right-hand corner of the screen. So, while you're bashing away at the

keyboard, you've got absolutely no idea what time it is and can very

easily miss your tea or favourite television program. But luckily

Charles Samson has the answer. Despite recently having his computer

stolen he's managed to come up with a rather impressive program which

does indeed display a clock in the top right-hand corner of your

screen. What's more it'll stay there through thick and thin, whether

you're typing in another program or running one, so you've got

absolutely no excuse for missing anything ever again.



Getting the program working, as you can probably imagine, is a case of

typing in the Basic listing and saving it with SAVE "CLOCK" LINE 5,

followed by the hex section which is entered via the Hex Loader.

Reloading the program and running it will show you a list of

instructions, but that's about it. To get the clock working do the

following ...

	POKE 48601,seconds

	POKE 48602,minutes

	POKE 48603,hours

	LET R=USR 48573

The words 'seconds', 'minutes' and 'hours' should obviously be

replaced by those corresponding to the current time. The clock will

then appear and should keep perfect time (unless you LOAD or SAVE or

do something dumb like switching off the Spectrum). To get rid of it,

press Symbol Shift and Space together.

