amiga clock

[gareth_2008]

hey, i have a amiga 500 how do i go about changing the time and date? sorry im a total noob but im learning cheers

[Harrison]

Do you have a ram expansion in the trap door under the A500? If so then it should have a battery backed clock built into the ram expansion. If you don't then the A500 doesn't have a way to remember the time and date while it is switched off.

If you do have a ram expansion with battery backed clock, the likelihood is that the battery is now dead after all these years so you will need to replace it.

To change the date and time, go into your Workbench preferences drawer. It will either be on the main boot Workbench disk if you are running Workbench from floppy disk, or on the harddrive in the DH0: partition or whatever your main boot partition is called.

BTW, which version of Workbench are you running? 1.3, 2.04, 3?

[Stephen Coates]

What kind of batteries do the RAM expansions tend to use?

My A500+ still has it's original battery on the motherboard and it still works.

[gareth_2008]

yeah i do have one under the door ! and the batt is alive
showing a healthy 2.4v !

any one have any idea what size this could be? does not say on it cheers

Image of card : Click me

[Tiago]

Hello gareth_2008 ,
it should be a 512kb memory card
You have 512KB of main machine + 512 expansion. a total of 1024kb

[gareth_2008]

ok thanks one other thing whats the switch for? cheers

[Tiago]

The switch is just to turn it on/off.
There is a really small number of games, that dont like expansion cards.... i think...
Just live it allways turn on.