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by tin
Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:15 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: "tan guide" - kinda interesting
Replies: 10
Views: 49051

Re: "tan guide" - kinda interesting

Yeah I know it was Prevue's (or the Prevue brand at least) attempt to enter the interactive guide market, but I don't think it lasted long - well as this post says it was retired in summer 2004 for Shaw cable at least.

Just interesting to see boxes with it still on in 2015 and that it still works!
by tin
Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:42 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: "tan guide" - kinda interesting
Replies: 10
Views: 49051

"tan guide" - kinda interesting

Tripped across a thread on the old interactive tan guide still on a box in 2015, and apparently still working. A remnant of Prevue I guess!

https://community.shaw.ca/thread/31403
by tin
Thu Aug 16, 2018 7:55 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: .
Replies: 8
Views: 33070

Re: there should be a discord server

I dunno, I signed up to discord and it was a bit of a pain. I signed up to slack and it wasn't. Certainly not complicated.

I dunno really just offering my 2p! :D
by tin
Wed Aug 15, 2018 3:43 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: .
Replies: 8
Views: 33070

Re: there should be a discord server

https://slack.com/

quite similar to discord really. Kind of a refreshed IRC that you can stick bots on.
by tin
Tue Aug 14, 2018 5:51 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: .
Replies: 8
Views: 33070

Re: there should be a discord server

I could do a slack channel I think. I didn't get on with Discord.....

Welcome to the forum BTW!
by tin
Sun Jul 01, 2018 5:30 am
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: The "1986 Warner Cable Channel Lineup" video
Replies: 16
Views: 12299

Re: The "1986 Warner Cable Channel Lineup" video

Very randomly this just came back up. Harry McCracken posted a couple of cable TV VCR captures that show the old-school info channels running on Texscan hardware. THis is the first time I have ever seen such a channel using lowercase somewhere - THEY ALWAYS SHOUTED AT YOU! which is odd considering h...
by tin
Sun Jul 01, 2018 5:14 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Drool!
Replies: 2
Views: 16695

Re: Drool!

I'm still considering making an offer for it ;)
by tin
Tue Jun 05, 2018 4:15 pm
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: New youtube videos
Replies: 367
Views: 379016

Re: New youtube videos

Tried a search but could not find, could you post a link to the comment on atariage?
by tin
Mon Apr 02, 2018 3:52 pm
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: Since when did Pop still have scrolling listings?
Replies: 32
Views: 31941

Re: Since when did Pop still have scrolling listings?

No need to apologise for bumping this topic, all sightings of this are interesting!
by tin
Mon Feb 19, 2018 5:33 pm
Forum: Prevue Emulation
Topic: Unexecutable Powerdata
Replies: 1
Views: 5652

Re: Unexecutable Powerdata

that's not an executable as it's saying, that's an LHA archive (like .zip in modern times).

maybe see if section enhancement 3 over here viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1873 helps get around it.