From: phurley@tamu.edu (Philip W. Hurley)
Subject: Re: CLOCK colours and GEOS file base
Organization: Computer Technology Group, TAEX
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:34:32 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.225409.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> slegge@kean.ucs.mun.ca 
writes:

>However, you can't adjust the backgroud colour even though it's an 
>option on the menu -- and there doesn't seem to be a way to save your 
>custom colours.

>Also, someone mentioned a couple days ago that there are more GEOS 
>file available on other BBSes and networks -- so how about it?  Does
>anyone have access to these file-bases?
> 
Here is the post from Rudi Ferrari regarding patches to the clock

From: Rudi_Ferrari@con.fido.de (Rudi Ferrari)
Subject: wahclock (was Re: Two new uploads to mir.eco.utexas.edu)
Date: 29 Sep 92 08:53:00 GMT

You wrote andrzej@bnr.ca (Adrzej Bieszczad):

 > it is.  I got wahclock.zip, and it does look quite nice... unfortunately
 > if I use the configuration menu, the clock hands stop moving... hmmm.

This is a known problem. But meanwhile, Thomas has a bugfix, which
follows in this message :-)

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By: Thomas Wachsmmann    (tomw@chamber.in-berlin.de)
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Problems with Clock Version 0.9.
First of all the fix for this bug:
   Search UHR.GEO or CLOCK.GEO for the following bytes (all in hex)
     A5 00 C3 00 00 00   (they are at file-offset 05D0)
   replace with
     A5 00 B8 01 00 C3
   That's it !
Now, for the curious, the explanation for the bug:
This is a temporary bug. :-) If you wait long enough, it will go away. When 
the clock-window is redisplayed by restarting the clock- application after 
shutdown, the program will wait anywhere from one sixtieth second to 65535 
sixtieth seconds (about 18 minutes) before it starts moving the hands. I 
just forgot to load the register that specifies this delay. The above fix 
will load it with '1', so the clock will start to work normally after one 
sixtieth second (which is, by the way, the smallest clock-tick in PC/GEOS).

Changing the default colors in CLOCK.GEO or UHR.GEO:
The colors are at the following file-offsets (all in hex):
  0241: hour-hand
  0251: minute-hand
  0261: second-hand
  0265: clock-face
  0267: the little lines for the twelve hours
For monochrome or CGA-displays you should only use 0 or 15 as color.

Now some 'real' patches:
Changing the window-background-color, that can't be changed in the 
  configuration: offset 0D84 for UHR.GEO and offset 0D78 for CLOCK.GEO
Changing the aspect ration of the display:
  at offset OD8E for UHR.GEO and offset OD82 for CLOCK.GEO use
    96 for VGA-display (default value),
    6B for EGA-display,
    61 for HGC-display,
    3E for CGA-display.
  This will correct the distorted display on non-VGA-displays.
  I will add an automatic correction to the final version, but right now
  I have no idea how to do that...

PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE MODIFIED VERSIONS OF CLOCK.GEO OR UHR.GEO, EXCEPT 
FOR THE BUG-FIX-PATCH ! You should instead include this message in the 
distribution-archive.

Thanks for the positive reactions to my programs,
   Thomas

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By the way, wasn't this included with the archive of CLOCK.GEO when you 
downloaded it?

I too would like to see more GEO files available via Internet.

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