Flashy Clock is an e-board designed for the H5 platform 3V3 bus. Flashy Clock derives its name from two of its major features, Flash ROM and a Real Time Clock (RTC).

Below is a list of the board features:

Flash ROM

• Ability to boot from up to 5x ROM images
• 4x 256K flashable ROM banks to store TOS, EmuTOS or other bootable ROM images
• Ability to boot from the motherboard ROM. No need to remove ROM from the motherboard
• Failsafe jumper to boot directly from motherboard ROM in case of issues
• Software to load ROM images into ROM banks
• Software selectable ROM bank including motherboard ROM
• ROM bank selection automatically restored on power up

RTC

• Real Time Clock based on the Falcon RTC
• NVRAM available for future settings

ALT RAM

• 8MB ALT RAM

FCXBIOS.PRG - XBIOS driver that allows Atari TOS to use your FlashyClock real-time clock hardware instead of the built-in IKBD keyboard clock. Copy FCXBIOS.PRG to your AUTO folder.
TIMESET4.PRG - Reads Flashy clock RTC to set system time. Copy TIMESET4.PRG to your AUTO folder (should be AFTER FCXBIOS.PRG)
FCDRIVER.PRG - 8MB alt-ram installer. Copy to your AUTO folder.
FLASHY1C - Configuration util.

*TO DO*

Remove keypress wait on loading drivers.
Flash fail will sometimes report valid TOS in the boot menu - planned fix to erase the first sector to "blank" the corrupted flash

Be careful that some revisions of the H5 mistakenly had inductors fitted on the 3.3V bus and need to be changed to 220K resistors. See THIS topic. Most boards had 100K resistors fitted and should be changed to 220K.

Due to complications shipping lithium batteries, flashy does not include the battery and you will need to purchase a CR1220 from your local supplier. Flashy will not operate correctly without a battery.

ALT-RAM requires TOS206 or EMUTOS. Currently EMUTOS has not been tested with Flashy clock.

Flashy software assumes TOS medium resolution. Any other configurations are used at your own risk.

NOTE: Flashy clock will disable TRUDIE ROM decoding automatically.

Flashy clock is only installable on the Phoenix H5 platform in the right hand side 3.3V bus socket only. Before anything you need to fit the battery otherwise flashy will malfunction. the need to copy the programs from the software section into your AUTO folder and then load The flashy configuration utility from desktop in medium resolution.

The first thing you must do from the main menu is click the "REAL TIME CLOCK" option. You will likely get a warning message but this is perfectly normal at this point.

On the real-time clock menu you need to click the RESET button to initialise flashy clocks parameters. then used up and down arrows to correctly set the time and date etc. Then exit back to the main menu.

Choose the program flash menu. due to flashy clock testing the top bank will likely be programmed with TOS206 and will not show blank as shown in the images.

To program a flashback you simply tick the box and click the program button. The file select will pop up where you can select the ROM image you want to flash. 192K / 256K ROM images are supported.

To select a bank to boot from go back to the main menu and select "CHANGE BOOT ROM".

The warning messages when the jumper is set on flashy to force motherboard ROM which should be done when flashing.

simply select the bank you want to boot from and click the SET button. The system will then reset. If you have not moved the physical jumper then you will boot from motherboard ROM again. Though it will show what flashy colours been set to buy the inverted colour on the first ROM bank. Motherboard ROM is ticked because that is what flashy is currently booting from.

On the left image below, this is the jumper setting to boot from motherboard ROM. the right image shows a jumper setting to boot from Flash.

Please do not move the jumper to any other locations as ahead is also used for the JTAG connection.