Teletext

lukhash ,
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still alive in Poland 🙌 Is it still a thing where you are??

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mistfunk Bot ,
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Mistodon: This adaptation of the cover art to Moog innovator and Ondioline proponent 's 1968 album was drawn by @zxguesser and included in the new music-themed MIST0224 artpack collection.

mistfunk Bot ,
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Mistodon: If you prefer your repetitive memory fun with less symbolic baggage, here's another celebration of Milton-Bradley's game, invented by and illustrated here by @andyuglifruit. This screen was also included in the recent MIST1121 artpack collection.

mistfunk Bot ,
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Mistodon: artists and vintage computing enthusiasts are often posed with subsets of this problem, but when you compound both interests the conundrum can be amplified in magnitude. This open question was drawn by @atonalosprey and included in the new MIST1121 artpack collection.

mistfunk Bot ,
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Mistodon: it proved influential to the album art of Ghost's Opus Eponymous, but here's a adaptation by Uglifruit of the promotional artwork for the 1979 TV miniseries of Stephen King's 1975 novel . This screen was included in the MIST1022 artpack collection released one year ago this month.

casandro , German
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Now the Wiki has a list of active services with some screenshots:
https://teletext.wiki.zxnet.co.uk/wiki/List_of_active_Teletext_services

gkmac ,

@casandro what software did you use to make these screenshots?

casandro OP ,
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@gkmac Uhm, wget. my satellite receiver has an HTTP-interface to get OSD screenshots and it uses OSD for Teletext.

gkmac ,

There's currently an advert on UK television for McDonald's featuring "fake" teletext. Of course I couldn't resist recreating it in "genuine" Level 2.5

McDonald's "fake" teletext TV advert recreated in "genuine" Level 2.5 teletext.
McDonald's "fake" teletext TV advert recreated in "genuine" Level 1 teletext.

penguin42 ,
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@gkmac I assume their 2 tone sesame seeds are actually impossible?

gkmac ,

Level 2.5 features "side panels" adding up to 16 additional columns on one or both sides of the existing 40 column display.

Anything in the side panels is totally invisible to Level 1 decoders so they can only really be used for decorative purposes rather than content. Here they are used to extend the horizontal "scrollers" in this tribute to a 2000s shopping channel.

The on-screen graphics from the TV channel "price-drop.tv" recreated in Level 2.5 teletext.
The on-screen graphics from the TV channel "price-drop.tv" recreated in Level 1 teletext.

zxguesser ,
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Shamelessly copying @JamieNemeth's @trekkietext concept to imagine what it might look like in The Next Generation level 2.5 😀​

Hampo ,
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Here’s something fun: an exhibition of art from 17 artists, presented on the teletext services of ARD (Germany), ORF (Austria) and YLE (Finland). http://teletextart.co.uk/summer-of-teletext-3000-exhibition-on-ard-text-yle-and-orf-teletext

JamieNemeth ,
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The livestream didn't go as planned, but we got a brilliant spontaneous interview out of it!

Cheers to Carl Attrill (@teletextr), Nathan Dane, and Cliff Foster for joining me to talk about , , , and retro nostalgia in general.

https://youtu.be/JmzxcYT3JtY

gkmac ,

A fellow enthusiasts' cat drawn in teletext, of course Level 2.5 allows their true orange colours to be shown.

A tortoiseshell and white cat drawn in Level 1 teletext.

ali1234 ,
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May as well throw some subtitles on there as well.

Star Trek, but on a Teletext page

zxguesser ,
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This time next week Chunky Fringe will be well under way at the Harrow Arts Centre.
The event has its own service, called ChunkyText and YOU can upload pages to it.
Just point your browser at https://blockparty.zxnet.co.uk/editor to create a page and upload it direct to chunkytext.

You can view ChunkyText online at https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/?c=3&p=100 or come to Harrow Arts next Saturday to get hands on with vintage teletext decoders and proper CRT tellies (and much more). 👉📺

https://arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf23/

ali1234 ,
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I've been working on page generation and made a simple terminal emulator to demo the api. Run any command on a page.

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