TV Guide Channel Emulation Working!

[woddfellow2]

Cached listings:

http://omploader.org/vNGVzOA
http://omploader.org/vNGVzOQ

TOTPD!

[tin]

all your base still makes me laugh after all these years...

[swest77]

all your base still makes me laugh after all these years...

lol... if only Captain Midnight had known PG's satellite data feed format.

[LocalH]

Haw, Captain Midnight...better him than the guy that hacked WGN and showed his ass Headroom-style

Just a status update - I'm in the process of getting my A2000 set up to run this thing. It's plugged up and working, so all I need to do is burn the following to a CD:

2.x ROM
Prevue ADF
anything else I might figure out I need, such as a softkicking tool

Then I'll be the first ever person outside of licensed users to run Prevue on a real Amiga

Yup, that's right, I have a CD-ROM drive connected to my A2000.

[tin]

How come you're running it from cd and not just using a disk?

[AriX]

Then I'll be the first ever person outside of licensed users to run Prevue on a real Amiga

lol, not quite, I have seen af ew posts on Usenet and such of people running it in the 90s and early 2000s when they were easier to get your hands on. Plus the guy I got the ADF from has done it.

But you'll be the first one on this forum I guess Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[LocalH]

How come you're running it from cd and not just using a disk?

I will be running it from disk, just using a CD to get everything from this laptop to the Amiga (rather than worrying about borrowing a USB floppy drive).

[LocalH]

Well, this is odd. Neither PD nor ESQ will load. I get a message stating "c:PD failed returncode 14" and when it tries to load ESQ, the pointer does it's color thing, then it just dumps to a CLI prompt.

[woddfellow2]

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By the way, anyone have any insight into what exactly TV Guide Around Town and Prevue Around Town were, and how they played unique ones in different locations?

I remember seeing TV Guide Around Town circa 2000–2001.

[LocalH]

OMG OMG OMG OMG

Apparently I wrote the disk image onto a bad disk and it caused the problems I was having. Got it written onto a good disk and IT BOOTS!!!!!!

Gonna have to build a custom startup-sequence for this, tailored to my system, to check for 3.1 ROM, and if present softkick 2.04 ROM.

It seems to work on my 3.1 ROM, sorta. It doesn't switch into interlace mode and it causes my genlock to output a signal that is constantly drifting to the left (but otherwise "stable", no skewing across scanlines), and the palette on the upper half of the screen is messed when it loads images. Still seems to work better on a real A2000 than emulation when it comes to 3.1.

Got two good disks here now, one write-protected as my physical "master", and the other one for day to day mucking around.