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@Ari - Since you seem to be the expert in this department, you should edit the Wikipedia entry for TV Guide Channel and create a section listing the musical elements previously used by Prevue Guide/Channel. I.e., mention that the original theme is an unidentified James & Aster library piece, th...

The fact the 130XE ROM has no crawl capabilities (there aren't even any strings in the ROM showing it can set ads to crawl mode) tells me the version you guys have is either very early old, yes ... or very new. Who knows: it's just as possible that feature wasn't added until later as it is that it ...

Bolt96 wrote:Ah, so I suppose the reason why there are some differences with the ROM we have could be that we have an older version correct?

Exactly. I've contacted several people with EPG Jrs, but they all bought them from the same place and they are all (so far) revision 6 ROMs.

Well they deffo had a machine at the centre that provided the c-band listings, and they could have as easily recorded a .mod to tape for broadcast as they could any other music source. Just a theory. Possible. I just don't see them using that sort of thing for this way back in 1988. I could be enti...

I wrote a few-paragraph-long response to this thread when Safari decided to crash. Will re-write some other time :p

The older music for when the grid looked like on the EPG Sr software - anyone else think it was a .mod file? Perhaps not played by the local machine, but it sounds really mod-ish to me. Any speculation? I doubt it, partially because it wouldn't make sense for them to have a machine that parsed out ...

Oh that reminds, some more info that I discovered today - I think you already guessed this AriX anyway but still... Mode K Clock byte 8 is summertime, as in, it's summer everybody. Seem that value $00 = winter and value $anything else = summer. Mode F byte 0B is summertime enabled, as in, if it's s...

curtjr4 wrote:What does mode F do

It sets various settings on the unit. tin documented most of it a few pages back, and I posted an example message.

I find the Prevue promos in the two new clips pretty hilarious... What were they thinking? :O
The whole "Saddest Prevue Guide that Ever Lived" thing was pretty funny too. Thanks for posting these videos.

tin wrote:Found what mode $BB does, and updated the cgi's.

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