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Master 128 Year 2000 Bug Solutions

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The Master 128 has a problem with the CMOS clock. It suffers from the year 2000 bug. There are a few solutions to this. Here are the ones that I know of:

Andrew Benham MOS patch. Offsite link
Colin Culpitt Smith Software solution
Edmund Burke Software solution
Mark Bush Free ROM fix (bugged fixed by Raf Giaccio)
Raf Giaccio Free ROM fix. This is Mark Bush's fix debugged and amended by Raf Giaccio to preserve PAGE by using filing system workspace RAM. Also Raf has an ADFS Utilities ROM. See PANELROM
Robert Sprowson ROM fix. Offsite link.

If you know of any more, please let me know

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