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by swest77
Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:25 pm
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: TV Guide Channel in Mexico
Replies: 25
Views: 25239

Re: TV Guide Channel in Mexico

Maybe it's a later incarnation of http://web.archive.org/web/20070806030832js_/www.prevue.com/prevuechannel.htm Speaking of which, I noticed someone removed the reference to Prevue Junior from wikipedia's article. It got changed to a Prevue Interactive reference. I'm thinking that's incorrect, but d...
by swest77
Fri May 28, 2010 9:05 am
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!
Replies: 129
Views: 85516

Re: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!

Amiga knowledge needn't be one in the same with general software intuitiveness. Just means I barely remember the hardware. ;) Incredibly mysterious, this phantom clock issue. See, clock RAM, evidently with extra space for stuffing unrelated data. That's something else I had and have no clues about i...
by swest77
Thu May 27, 2010 7:13 pm
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: Prevue fonts
Replies: 46
Views: 38864

Re: Prevue fonts

Thanks, Rudy. :)
by swest77
Thu May 27, 2010 4:35 am
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!
Replies: 129
Views: 85516

Re: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!

Incase the information helps with the dissection. Order of one grid cycle: [TV GUIDE GRAPHICAL LOGO] [10:00 PM | 10:30 PM | 11:00 PM] [Thursday April 1 1999] [Effective February 1st, our Torrance & Hawthorne Service Center hours...] *RED HIGHLIGHT* 2 KCBS 3 METMRK 4 KNBC 5 KTLA 6 TBS 7 KABC 8 FO...
by swest77
Tue May 25, 2010 10:27 pm
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: Prevue Trademarks
Replies: 10
Views: 7589

Re: Prevue Trademarks

Just had an idea. Besides trademarks, there are also patents. Like I was saying earlier, companies patent everything they can. So I was thinking, there are surely patents out there describing exactly how their satellite data feed worked -- that could possibly even clarify the VBI vs. audio subcarrie...
by swest77
Tue May 25, 2010 6:33 pm
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!
Replies: 129
Views: 85516

Re: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!

tin wrote:all your base still makes me laugh after all these years...
lol... if only Captain Midnight had known PG's satellite data feed format. ;)
by swest77
Mon May 24, 2010 10:28 pm
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!
Replies: 129
Views: 85516

Re: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!

Well, you can help your situation by disabling cycle-exact - this software doesn't seem to use any weird assembly optimization, being coded in C. That part of the whole equation is beyond my Amiga knowledge, so thanks. Done. I also recommend that you set line mode to Normal - the screen will look h...
by swest77
Mon May 24, 2010 9:46 pm
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!
Replies: 129
Views: 85516

Re: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!

Well, I was going to make a video showing off some of this new stuff for YouTube, but I'm having problems getting WinUAE to output anything more than a 5.5KB AVI with nothing in it. I don't want to use anything other than lossless compression, so I tried HuffYUV (well, ffdshow's HuffYUV encoder) an...
by swest77
Mon May 24, 2010 8:53 pm
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!
Replies: 129
Views: 85516

Re: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!

Thanks kindly! Any reason why you included non-virgin copies of curday.dat and nxtday.dat, though? Not that I'm worried you "did anything" to them; just thinking about the possibility of any cached data having been flushed by PG from them if they're from a "used" ADF. No, he's s...
by swest77
Mon May 24, 2010 8:37 pm
Forum: Prevue Discussion
Topic: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!
Replies: 129
Views: 85516

Re: TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!

Sure, I'll try to package them up in the next few minutes. Out of all of those, the only two that should be different from the original image are curday.dat and nxtday.dat - the other PP20 files are just graphics, and the executables are of course never changed in our current situation (after all, ...