Discussion about software development for the old-school Gameboys, ranging from the "Gray brick" to Gameboy Color
(Launched in 2008)
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Hey,
I have an old Gameboy DMG that I'd love to have on display at home.
I think it would be cool to use the Gameboy as a clock.
It would be constantly running and would have a constant power supply.
Has anyone ever made something like this?
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Thermodynamic5000 wrote:
Hey,
I have an old Gameboy DMG that I'd love to have on display at home.
I think it would be cool to use the Gameboy as a clock.
It would be constantly running and would have a constant power supply.
Has anyone ever made something like this?
It can be done, just make the gameboy draw the numbers and then use the screen refresh rate to add seconds to the clock, I think the screen has 60 Hz, it refreshes 60 times /second.
This program will count seconds:
int TIM = 0;
int SEC = 0;
void main()
{
while(1)
{
if (TIM == 60){ ;
printf("SECONDS: %u\n", SEC);
SEC+=1;
TIM = 0;
}
TIM++;
wait_vbl_done();
}
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Actually, it's 59.7275 Hz, which is about 0.5% slower than 60 Hz. That means that every 200 sec (about 3 min and a half) the GB clock would be delayed 1 sec. I don't know if that's a clock I'd like to use. However, by using the timer interrupt it MAY be accurate enough to be used this way, I have no idea about how accurate the system clock is.
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