Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!mips!bridge2!3comvax!tymix!hobbes!pnelson
From: pnelson@hobbes.uucp (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Talking Clock
Summary: Make your own with Amicron and Say
Message-ID: <3347@tymix.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 90 08:22:19 GMT
References: <13164@baldrick.udel.EDU> <12295@venera.isi.edu>
Sender: news@tymix.UUCP
Reply-To: pnelson@hobbes.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose
Lines: 26

In article <12295@venera.isi.edu> rod@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III) writes:
>In article <13164@baldrick.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes:
>
>>"Every multitasking system needs a talking clock..." -- Andy Finkel
>
>So, does one exist for the Amiga? Usual questions: where can I get it,
>PD, shareware, or commercial?
>
>		--Rod

One of the first things I did when Amicron came out was make an alarm clock,
using the built-in say function. Later I added announcements for other times.
a sample line from the CronTab follows:

59 21 * * * say   -f -n -p250 "The time is, twenty-two hundred."

It says the time 1 minute early because I like to have a minute to turn on
the news or whatever. I run out of the RAM disk because the original was
reading the disk all the time, I think the newer version doesn't do that any
more, but I haven't had any reason to move it back.

There have been a couple of crons out, the latest Amicron is on FishDisk 139.
Phil Nelson at (but not speaking for)                  OnTyme:NSC.P/Nelson
BT Tymnet                                               Voice:408-922-7508
UUCP:{pyramid|ames}oliveb!tymix!pnelson              LRV:Component Station
Help defend the Second Amendment - Boycott Time Inc.