newbie to prevue/tv guide emulation...

[Danfun64]

Hello, although I am not new to emulation itself (i used various emulators in the past), I am new to tv guide emulation. I didn't even know that TV Guide was named Prevue Guide in the past until recently. I noticed that you guys are trying to emulate the prevue guide software. How far have you got in emulation? Is there a way to get tv listings through the emulation in windows? Sorry, but the status of things aren't clear... This next question might be outlandish, but has anybody managed to emulate the win-nt versions of the tv guide software? Thanks in advance.

edit: fixed title LOL

[tin]

Definitely not the NT version! We can emulate the Amiga version under windows in WinUAE, and inject some of the data via a virtual serial port. Or in fact, it can run on a real Amiga too.

[Danfun64]

ok... so if i wanted to do manual listings entry (for goofy purposes i guess), i'm trying this:

Okay as you might have guessed, make a new HD from a folder on your Host OS. Assign it DH2 (or change the script whatever you prefer) and change the startup sequence to the following:

;main startup script

failat 21
assign ENV: dh2:
makedir ram:T
assign T: ram:T

assign c: dh2:c
assign s: dh2:s
assign df0: dismount
assign df0: dh2:

newcli "CON:0/0/640/200/ Prevue" from s:uv-ver
endcli >nil

but when i try to use the script, well...

If this isn't right, then i don't know what the problem is...

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[tin]

U need to copy ALL the files from the floppy disk to your (virtual) HD and make that the boot device.

[Danfun64]

we seem to be making progress, now, whats wrong with THIS picture?



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edit: just in case, i fixed the mount part of the config, so it now looks like this:



edit 2: nvm, i missed this part:

...make that the boot device.

[Braxton Leo]

How do you make a boot device?

[AriX]

How do you make a boot device?

I believe in E-UAE somewhere you can specify what is the primary boot device - as in, tell it to prioritize booting from a virtual hard drive rather than a virtual floppy drive.

[Braxton Leo]

I used unadf to extract all files from the PREVUE.ADF file that is posted on this site. I copied all of the contents into a folder called /root/Downloads/Prevue.
I then set the directory as the hard drive, giving it Boot priority 1:


However, when I pressed start, this is what happened when I tried to follow the instructions:


What am I doing wrong?

[LocalH]

Try this:

1) In the E-UAE configuration, change the device name from Prevue to DH2 (you can leave the volume name as Prevue or make it anything else you want, only thing that's important is the device name).
2) Launch E-UAE and begin the emulation.
3) Immediately after doing so, hold down both left and right mouse button.
4) If you don't see a menu listing boot devices (after step one, you should at least see DF0 and DH2, and depending on how many floppy drive you have enabled you may see DF1-DF3), start again from step 2
5) On this menu, click Advanced Options.
6) On the screen that results, click next to Startup-Sequence where it says ENABLED, it should change to DISABLED
7) Click USE and when it goes back to the menu saying Select Boot Partition, choose DH2
8) When the 1> prompt appears, type the following command lines, wait for each one to complete before doing the next one:

protect c:#? rwed
protect s:#? srwed
protect SYS:esq rwed

9) After the last one is done, try rebooting your emulated Amiga, you should then at least be a little further along (if it doesn't outright work fine).

Oh, and for the record (to tin, or anyone else using this script) - if you're using DH2 as a boot device, then there's no real need to assign c: and s: as DH2: is SYS: and c: and s: are by default SYS:c and SYS:s - it won't hurt anything, it'll just make booting ever so slightly slower =P

[woddfellow2]

When I try to run those commands, I get this:

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protect: file is not executable

How do I fix this?