Stunningly reliable too

Still time to make us some festive #TeletextArt, if you want to be featured on Finnish television. 😎 Deadline is shortly before the final week in November. #ceefax #PixelArt #1bit #VideoText #Teletext

Anyone who thinks Bond films need to continue on from each other as a series of logically connected sequels should be kept well away from making Bond films anyway.

Yay it's finally Friday! Thanks to @thetvroom.com for some constructive criticism about my clocks this week which has greatly improved the accuracy of the different clock hand behaviours, and the dimensions of the clock faces 😀 zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

teletextart.co.uk/call-for-ent... #teletext

A little four line bash script now swaps out the config files on my online viewer every morning to give Teefax a "clock of the day", which takes you on an anachronistic journey through time throughout the week. 🤓 zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

Working on the caption generator part of the clock code some more this evening. I regret to inform you that I will now be adding DOGs to all my channels...

No, YOU sat up all night rewriting your clock code to make it fully parametric so that it can be configured to look like every† BBC clock just by changing the json definition. †except for the ones it can't

If you're still up, why not watch the sheer wonder of the Ceefax clock ticking over to 2am twice in one night? www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...

I spent two whole days coding this week to make mine look like that, so I *hope* it still does after it changes 😄 Tune in and watch to see if all the code explodes! zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

Top tip. If your clock looks like this when you put it back tonight, you’ve overshot by nearly thirty years.

A few weeks ago @nmsni.co.uk asked "when can we have clocks on the viewer? 🤣" and it's been nagging away at me since... Lots of annoying timezone issues and customisation feature creep later... zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie... Heavily inspired by the SVG recreations on @aswiseman.bsky.social's site!

A few weeks ago @nmsni.co.uk asked "when can we have clocks on the viewer? 🤣" and it's been nagging away at me since... Lots of annoying timezone issues and customisation feature creep later... zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie... Heavily inspired by the SVG recreations on @aswiseman.bsky.social's site!

Trying and failing again to think of a use for all the teletext databroadcast code I wrote for vbit2. As @nmsni.co.uk aptly put it earlier "Still trying to find a problem for our solution" 😆

Glang. Glang-a-lang-a-lang-a-lang-a-lang-a-lang. Glang-a-lang—lang-a-lang-a-lang

My two best teletext recoveries ever, followed by two shredded tapes. *turns VCR off and sulks for another two years*

I've dragged the VCR out for the first time in over a year and a half to get back to some teletext recovery. The first recording of this evening's tape is easily the best results I've ever had 🤯 I've fed it straight into the test channel on my online viewer: zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

Now we're cooking! This is the sort of recovery quality I wanted to see from these recordings 😀

More IDENT from a much longer recording. You can see how the timings shift up the page as the items are broadcast. (excuse all the mangled content this is still with a very hacked together teletext recovery process)

Feeling at a loose end now that #ChunkyFringe is done and all the TVs are packed way until the next event, so I went picking at an old scab, and figured out how to process a hidden internal channel 4 teletext service called IDENT from a file that's been lurking on my hard drive since 2021 👀

All the tellies up and running at #ChunkyFringe

Power failure at ChunkyText towers. Hopefully we'll be back online tomorrow! 😱

Well my other posts don't seem to have worked, so I've decided to try superliminal advertising to get people to create some #TeletextArt for Chunky Fringe. blockparty.zxnet.co.uk

Here's another pre-chunky-fringe teletext treat! A new vhs recovery has allowed us to complete another Turner the Worm story from 1995. The evil Robert Ratford is attempting to blow up the Earth! Read on at: zxnet.co.uk/teletext/tur...

Another reminder that the #ChunkyFringe teletext editing system is online for anyone to have a go at creating real teletext pages: blockparty.zxnet.co.uk Channel your inner @mrbiffo.bsky.social* and come and admire your creations in all their chunky glory on CRT tellies in Harrow this Saturday!

This happens IMMINENTLY. Come join us for all the Digitiser/teletext/retro tech/silliness you could want for precisely no money down. North London. Saturday. See you there.

Halloween month of teletext starts nice and slow with some Nightmare Before Christmas. There are hundreds more to come this month I hope you see something you like. If you have any Halloween requests, please drop me a DM. I'm going to try to post regularly at noon and 6pm and Midnight (GMT) daily.

I've added a couple of new features to the Archive: there's a stats page with all sorts of data; the results might surprise you! teletextarchive.com/Home/Stats There's also an RSS feed now on teletextarchive.com/rss.xml which allows you to subscribe to a regularly-updated list of new services.

The ChunkyText user pages magazine has been cleared out ready for next weekend, and the edit server is LIVE NOW. blockparty.zxnet.co.uk I thought since we have a week to go until Chunky Fringe maybe we should call those a #WeeklyTeletextArt prompt for anyone needing a bit of artistic inspiration 😁

There's still time to send in your best artworks for a page of your own in the #TeletextArt Showcase (p104), or an article about your website/radio station/ska band/implausible animal based business* on ChunkyText *can you tell I'm running out of steam with these posts 😆

There's still time to send in your best artworks for a page of your own in the #TeletextArt Showcase (p104), or an article about your website/radio station/ska band/implausible animal based business* on ChunkyText *can you tell I'm running out of steam with these posts 😆

The ChunkyText user pages magazine has been cleared out ready for next weekend, and the edit server is LIVE NOW. blockparty.zxnet.co.uk I thought since we have a week to go until Chunky Fringe maybe we should call those a #WeeklyTeletextArt prompt for anyone needing a bit of artistic inspiration 😁

Another call to the #TeletextArt​ists who made it over here. I'm currently refreshing the teletext art showcase for #ChunkyFringe next weekend. If you send me a few of your favourite works along with a 2-3 line artist bio I can give you a carousel on ChunkyText 🙂

Another call to the #TeletextArt​ists who made it over here. I'm currently refreshing the teletext art showcase for #ChunkyFringe next weekend. If you send me a few of your favourite works along with a 2-3 line artist bio I can give you a carousel on ChunkyText 🙂

Testing the BBC Micro and Acorn teletext adapter still all works ready for #ChunkyFringe

Whoops I seem to have run out of #NationalTeletextDay and didn't get around to doing any posts. Oh well, every day is teletext day on this account anyway 😜

Completely forgot that it was #NationalTeletextDay today! *presses REVEAL on the duvet cover*

Don't forget, if you have a blog/twitch channel/craft club/pygmy hippo trampolining centre that you'd like to plug on ChunkyText at #ChunkyFringe there's only a few days left. I can make you a single screen advert, or give you space for a short article. No teletext editing experience necessary.

shut up zig-zag face

One thing I've noticed since getting the teletext page working again with Bluesky, is that emoji aren't as popular here/have gone out of fashion 👎 Where people do use them, it tends not to be any of the basic things 😢 Which is a bummer as they were a great way to demo redefinable characters 😛

Fixed a few more niggling bugs in the teletext-bluesky script ready for #ChunkyFringe zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

...a wonderful piece of BBC history lives again. This unit was last used on-air in 2012 for DSO! (2/3)

VT I've cut your talkback. I cut it to shut that Blobby idiot in Network One.

RIP Robert Ratford

Ewww my phone just updated and now everything is hideous 😠

Three weeks? 😱 A reminder that I'm preparing to update my teletext service ChunkyText ready for Chunky Fringe. If you have a YouTube channel/Video game/Pop group/Pelican snooker hall you want to promote via a teletext advert or article, drop me an email at [email protected]

Chunky Fringe is just 3 weeks TOMORROW! Me! Biffo! Bubblegun! An inflatable sofa! What could you possibly be doing on the 4th October that’s better than that? Also: 100% free! www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/...

I wrote up a slightly less confusing guide to playing with this on Stardot, with a few screenshots and things: www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt...