Clock5

Clock5 v1.85 (November, 2000) ================================ Clock 5 is a Revo / Series 5 / 5mx / Geofox / Ericsson MC218 / Series 7 / netBook / Osaris password-protected screensaver - much like those available for the Mac and Windows. Of course you don't really need a screen saver as such for your Psion / 'fox / Ericsson / Osaris - why would its screen need saving? With this in mind, I thought it should at least do something useful - like display a large clock perhaps... The idea was originally based on Dan Comiskey's 'Clock' program for the 3a/c. There are quite a number of enhancements planned for future releases so visit Pscience5 at:- http://www.pscience5.net ocassionally to check for updates and more details. Installation ============ Installation is via the now standard .sis file method. There are 6 files:- Clock5.sis (Clock5's installation file) Alarm.sis (Symbian's OPX file) SysRAM1.sis (Symbian's OPX file) Systinfo.sis (Symbian's OPX file) ReadMe.txt (this file) Changes.txt (changes in the last few releases) Clock5.sis, Alarm.sis, SysRAM1.sis, and Systinfo.sis can be installed on your machine either by using Psion's EPOC install program (as supplied with PsiWin 2.1/2.2/2.3) or by using the Add/Remove icon in your Psion's control panel if you've got (say) Email already installed on your machine. If the latter, just copy the .sis files onto your Psion and either find them using the Add/Remove icon in your machine's control panel or just double-click on them to auto-run the install routine. During the installation of Clock5, you will be given the option of installing voice files. These enable Clock5 to be used a speaking clock when in its 'Sweet Dreams' mode. (NB: 1) The machines Owner Information screen must be switched off for this feature to work, 2) Not Osaris). The files are quite large however (~100Kb) so there's an option not to install them. Clock5 will work without them minus this particular feature. The Clock5 icon should now have appeared in your Extras bar ready to run. If you want to add your own user-defined logos to the standard ones built-in to Clock5, just create an additional directory called 'Logos' in the new System\Apps\Clock5\ directory (on whichever drive you specified during installation) and add .mbm files into it. They'll be found automatically by Clock5. There are some sample logos available on the Pscience5 web site. "Incompatible opx version" during installation ============================================== If you should get this error when you're installing Symbian's OPX files, then one of two possible things could be the problem:- 1) You've got an older version of Systinfo.opx or Sysram1.opx on your Psion causing conflict with the new one. Symbian released new versions of these opx files for ER5/5mx compatibility. The new files will work fine on the Geofox/S5 - but all of the machines appear to get confused if there's a copy of the old opx files on the machine somewhere as well as the new one(s). Hence I'd recommend checking for old versions of sysram1.opx and Systinfo.opx either in c:/system/opx/ or d:/system/opx/ before installing Clock5. By the way, old apps. will work fine with this newer version of these opx files. 2) That you've got a program already running that's using Sysram1.opx or Systinfo.opx when you try to install Clock5 (e.g. Macro5). Close down running programs before the installation. Best regards, Martin Guthrie martin@freepoc.de