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I had a problem following accidental installation of SyncClock on my RiscPC. I have VirtualRPC-SAAdjust on a PC but it had no SyncClock in its !Boot. I am running RISC OS 6.10 which has RTCAdjust in ROM.

Does it need SyncClock as well? If so, where do I get it?

A copy of SyncClock will be in your old (backed up) boot sequence as created by the RISC OS 6 installer.

I am somewhat facinated about someone accidentally copying SyncClock from a VirtualRPC !Boot to the !Boot on a "real" RiscPC. This would take several operations. Why was it copied over? Because it certainly wouldn't work and might well cause all sorts of problems.

[quote="Aaron"]A copy of SyncClock will be in your old (backed up) boot sequence as created by the RISC OS 6 installer. ...]

Regrettably this is not the case. You may recall that, following your advice, I transferred a previous VRPC installation complete from a laptop to a desktop PC. I did not use the installer.

I asked the questions because it appears from what SyncClock's author has written, here and in a newsgroup, that it might not be required if the module RTCAdjust is present; as it is in RISC OS 6 which I am using with your latest possible VRPC_SAAdjust. Can you please elucidate this?

The saga of the SyncClock module on a real RiscPC is recounted in newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.hardware in thread 'RiscPC Timekeeping' and 'RiscPC Timekeepin - Part 2'.

Soon after I wrote that I remembered I had kept a 'virgin' copy of the HardDisc4 image (ie, before any changes, additions, etc from within VRPC). So I have found the files that were missing. Sorry, for misleading you.

I still would like to know whether I actually need SyncClock which I see is at least 7 years old.

It depends. If your VirtualRPC is up to date with the new HostClock plugin (Jan 2009 HostFS Update) then you probably won't need SyncClock.