Teletext
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Teletext50 - A meet-up to celebrate 5 decades of the blocky medium.
đź“… Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September 2024
🕰️ 10am – 5pm
🗺️ Centre for Computing History, Rene Ct, Coldham’s Rd, Cambridge CB1 3EW (United Kingdom)
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Teletext on Amiga - 1994
> In the aftermath of my Teletext experiments on Amiga – which I totally believed to be a world’s first breakthrough – blog reader Martin contacted me to tell me about his own Teletext experiments back in 1992, with a working solution in 1994, making his setup probably the real world’s first Teletext output directly from the Amiga!
- sunspotstories.podbean.com Teletext 50: The History of the first 50 years | Byte High no Limit
Teletext50: The Stories A Byte High No Limit / illarterate co-production  In 1974, a brand new technology called teletext was being rolled out. It would, over the next few decades, have far-reaching implications, not only in the UK but worldwide.  These are the stories of those involved in the pro...
> > > In 1974, a brand new technology called teletext was being rolled out. It would, over the next few decades, have far-reaching implications, not only in the UK but worldwide. These are the stories of those involved in the production, restoration and art of the blocky medium that graced UK TV screens until 2012. You’ll hear from the pioneers, those who made teletext tick, and the newcomers keeping the medium alive 50 years after its inception. This is a social record of teletext, and these are the teletext people. > >
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You want a go of a 25-year-old Bamboozle don't you?
Originally posted on Mastodon here: https://mas.to/@grim\_fandango/112778376239926349
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Eagle Quest: Journey through the Lairsdale
A Teletext Knightmare adventure!
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Mr Biffo Plays Teletext Knightmare
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One of the teletext Knightmare games!
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Mr Biffo plays Bamboozle
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The teletext artist responsible for the image of Bamber Boozler plays through a Bamboozle quiz.
- store.steampowered.com TEEFAX: Cold Case on Steam
Unravel a cold case after an old laptop containing the photos of a long unidentified victim and a strange app called "The Door" is found in an abandoned house. The police reckon it may be a cipher of some sort, but after unsuccessful attempts at decoding it, they turn to the public.
> > > TEEFAX is a mysterious puzzle adventure game that has you solve a cold case after an old laptop containing the photos of a long unidentified victim is found in an abandoned house. There is also an app on the laptop - The Door. The police reckon it may be a cipher of some sort, but as they are unsuccessful in solving it, they turn to the public. > >
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It's MAR10 day!
This originates from Teletext, where 10th March looked like MAR10. Image source: https://www.superpage58.com/digitiser-vault-teletext-screenshot-image-archive-1993-01-01.htm
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TELETEXT - Steam
store.steampowered.com TELETEXT on SteamWelcome back to 1995. You turn your TV on, but there's an ad break! You press the red button to check out your favorite passtime. As you browse through, you see there's a lot missing. News articles not displaying, games out of order. Is anyone even keeping this updated anymore? Where did they go?
> > > Welcome back to 1995. You turn your TV on, but there's an ad break! You press the red button to check out your favorite passtime. As you browse through, you see there's a lot missing. News articles not displaying, games out of order. Is anyone even keeping this updated anymore? Where did they go? > >
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DIGI LEVEL 2 EPISODE 1- 6pm (UK time) premiere
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\#sonic #retrogaming #digitiser With the help of their special guests Ashens, Larry Bundy Jr, Dan Does, Sooz Kempner and Beanus, Mr Biffo and Gannon take a lo...
- www.theguardian.com Teletext lives on in Sweden thanks to nostalgia and trusted content
In most of the western world teletext has disappeared, but in Sweden it is going strong and will soon celebrate its 45th anniversary
> In most of the western world teletext has disappeared, but in Sweden it is going strong and will soon celebrate its 45th anniversary
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The end of the world is nigh
I made this years ago when Teletext announced they were closing. It amused me that that they might report on the world ending and still plan to run the service beyond that point, along with selling holidays nobody is able to go on.
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RTÉ to close Aertel service next week
Aertel was formally launched in 1987 and will close on Thursday, 12 October.
- www.timeextension.com Worms For Teletext Is Real And Runs On A Commodore Amiga
An April Fools' joke made real!
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Shades (a commercial successful MUD that ran on British Telecom from the mid 80'... | Hacker News
Shades, the MUD on Micronet/Prestel is still running!
telnet://games.world.co.uk
- www.indieretronews.com Worms VBI - AttentionWhore announces that Teletext has come to the Commodore Amiga!
we've been told that AttentionWhore has announced that Teletext has come to the Commodore Amiga (AGA).
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It's happening today - should have posted this earlier!
- sunspotstories.podbean.com Byte High no Limit | a podcast by Byte High no Limit Productions
Podcasts about Peoples relationships with technology, teletext, old Arcades and whatever else. Social History of technology, not always obvious.
Podcasts about Peoples relationships with technology, teletext, old Arcades and whatever else. Social History of technology, not always obvious.
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Bernard Cribbins Presents Prestel - The Post Office Viewdata Service
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LaserDisc with teletext (1981 – late 1990s)
obsoletemedia.org LaserDisc with teletext (1981 – late 1990s) | Museum of Obsolete MediaTeletext was a means of displaying text and basic graphics on a television that had the ability to decode the information. Invented in the early 1970s, the first major broadcaster to offer a broadcast…
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I’ve noticed teletext is sent along with broadcast radio as well. E.g. smartphones with an FM receiver are able to show the station callsign and the name of the currently playing artist. So my questio
I’ve noticed teletext is sent along with broadcast radio as well. E.g. smartphones with an FM receiver are able to show the station callsign and the name of the currently playing artist. So my question is, is scheduling information also included in that data stream so we know what programs are coming on the radio station at what times?
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Teletext Archive - Teletext Archive
An archive of teletext pages
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The Park Avenue Project
An archive of the the original teletext soap.