Fast Clock

Dotric Fast Clock is a Windows application that displays a clock and scheduling information in large letters and numbers.

It is intended to be used for running model railways to a predetermined schedule. The clock may be set to run up to fifty times faster than a normal clock in 12 hour or 24 hour format. Events may be set up to be displayed beneath the clock. Each event has a time and is counted down to "NOW" in the display. Any number of events may be set up. The three next events will be displayed statically. All other events will be displayed ticker tape fashion.

Dotric Fast Clock may be used with the Dotric Station Blue Points Controller and the Dotric Station Blue Train Controller to initiate points and train formations. A points formation sets up a road as each event becomes due. A train formation is used to actually run a train at scheduled time.

Installation Instructions

Dotric Fast Clock may be downloaded from this website free of charge. Once downloaded Dotric Fast Clock will be able to display a running clock and scheduled events. Dotric Station Blue must be purchased separately and installed before Dotric Fast Clock is able to perform any points switching.

Dotric Fast Clock will perform best on a computer running Windows XP or better. It may run on Windows 98 machines once the .NET framework has been installed.

To install Dotric Fast Clock on this computer now click here, press Run in the first dialog box that appears and follow the instructions in the subsequent windows.

To install Dotric Fast Clock subsequently on this or another computer click here and press Save in the first dialog that appears. The saved DotricInstaller.exe file may be copied to another computer and used to install Dotric Fast Clock on that computer with no internet connection being required on that computer. To install Dotric Fast Clock using the DotricInstaller.exe file simply double click on the file icon.

NOTES
  1. During the course of the installation some security warnings may appear. It is of course necessary to let the installation proceed if you want to install Dotric Fast Clock
  2. If you wish to remove Dotric Fast Clock from your computer in the future, you must use Add or Remove Programs in the Windows Control Panel.
  3. For those that have downloaded previous versions of Dotric Fast Clock this version has adopted a Windows 7 friendly file system. Don't panic!! Your old scenario files are perfectly save in the Program Files\Dotric Pty Ltd\Fast Clock directory. However, moving them to the new My Documents\Fast Clock directory might be the easiest thing to do.