Prevue Guide Emulation Tutorial

These pages contain a series of guides for emulating the Prevue Guide system software, a cable television channel that provided an infinitely scrolling program guide to cable customers.

I wrote these as there was initially a bit of confusion for newcomers trying to set it up themselves (myself included.)

These tutorials were written assuming you run Microsoft Windows, however should translate fine to other operating systems.

A few of these have been mirrored as a standalone Neocities page, however it has not been updated in quite a while.

Table of Contents:

The latest update was on September 26, 2024.

EPG Jr. (Atari)

• Requirements
• Installation / Setup
• Receiving listings data
• Inserting custom text advertisements

Prevue/ESQ (Amiga)

• WinUAE
  • Requirements
  • Installation / Setup
  • Receiving listings data
• FS-UAE
  • Requirements
  • Installation / Setup
  • Receiving listings data
• Inserting custom text advertisements
• Inserting custom graphics (ads / logos / banner)

PC Prevue (Windows)

• Requirements
• Installing PC Prevue
  • Installing PC Prevue on DOSBox(-X)
  • Installing PC Prevue on QEMU *written by Tobskep
• Receiving listings data

Hollywood (Windows)

• TBA

Third-party utilities

• Obtaining listings data
  • PrevueCLI
  • Prevue Channel Listings Sender (external link)
  • genday (external link)
  • Prevue Commander (external link)

Other guides

• “Getting emulation up and running” by 'tin’ on the Prevue Guide Forums
• Troubleshooting

For more resources and discussion, check out the Prevue Guide Wiki, Forums, Subreddit, and Discord server. Otherwise, you may reach out to me directly.