westfw:
Why? Aren't there newer, better, easier-to-install cores for the tiny85 in newer versions?
yes, that newer "TinyCore" on GoogleCode looks like it's well used - but i want to stick with the devil (IDE) i know, on this old finicky (Windows XP) laptop - i have another newer" computer which has a different set of problems, which i did try to install 1.6.2, 1.6.7 and even 1.8.5 - that's running a very unstable Vista, i am considering switching to Linux for that - then i will definitely install IDE 1.8.5.
westfw:
There are internal oscillator calibration programs around, somewhere, that you can use to tune the internal oscillators, probably (I'm not sure that the Arduino cores will USE the resulting calibration, unless you add code manually.) Depending on how accurate you need the clock to be. Using up a third of your pins just to get a somewhat better clock seems painful.
ahh, i hadn't thought of that - okay, i will look up "oscillator calibration" then to see what other alternatives i can try.
when i mentioned "timing off" - i think it might have been a factor of 2 - the blink for 1 second, seemed to last 2 seconds instead - that would happen if a 16 MHz sketch(?) met with an actual clock of 8 MHz, right ?
EDIT:
duh - i timed it, it lasted 8 seconds !
maybe there's another solution for this timing mismatch ?