Jamie NemethA (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
Kel@JamieNemeth was fortunate enough to grow up with the tail end of ceefax, shame it shut down. though i think theres a similar service in switzerland still, shame i cant pick up any channels out here
CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH@asokel @JamieNemeth There's at least one Swiss channel that has an online browser of their teletext: https://www.teletext.ch/SRF1/100
@loadhigh @JamieNemeth ive gotta see if the array pc can even load that though
There's also...well...Ceefax 😊
https://nmsceefax.co.uk/
Several modern-day hobbyist services available here:
https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/
And mine has a web viewer:
https://www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/viewer/?minitv
mathew
@mathew Might have been a more obvious issue than that...decided to fiddle with the server, and it was down for a bit.
Is it working now?
@JamieNemeth Yes, all working now.
Sometimes I get weird fantasies about creating a new distributed TCP/IP Teletext network. (I built a distributed Teletext system in the 80s on my school’s BBC Micro LAN.)
@mathew Cheers for letting me know. I was looking up CORS-header stuff just in case, as it's not something I've intentionally implemented yet, but it was far more likely all the stuff I installed as an experiment - at the unwisest time, given the popularity of my Mastodon post 🤣 - that slowed my server to a crawl, to the point where it was tough for me to even get a stable enough SSH terminal connection on the LAN to uninstall it again 🤣
But it all seems stable again now.
@mathew And...your fantasy, or something close to it, might already be reality...
If you have a Raspberry Pi, the idea of VBIT2 is that it grabs teletext services (in TTI format) from a Git or SVN repository, and produces signals in the VBI to allow you to view it on your teletext-compatible TV (or in-vision with VBIT-IV for a non-teletext TV/monitor).
Any changes pushed to the service appear on all internet-connected Pis a few minutes later.
GitHub - peterkvt80/vbit2: Teletext streaming. Generates a T42 teletext stream from teletext pages. This can be used with inserter hardware or a Raspberry Pi to generate a video signal that teletext TVs can decode and display. It can also be used with vbit-iv to generate in-vision teletext on a Linux PC or Raspberry Pi.
Teletext streaming. Generates a T42 teletext stream from teletext pages. This can be used with inserter hardware or a Raspberry Pi to generate a video signal that teletext TVs can decode and displa...