Teletext

From https://www.tumblr.com/teletextart/763878210595323904/26-artists-are-taking-part-in-this-new-teletext50?source=share

26 artists are taking part in this new #teletext50 art exhibition on Yle Text in Finland!

You can view all 101 artworks online here until 11th November 2024:
https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=840

📅 Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September 2024

🕰️ 10am – 5pm

🗺️ Centre for Computing History, Rene Ct, Coldham’s Rd, Cambridge CB1 3EW (United Kingdom)

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!

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.

Originally posted on Mastodon here: https://mas.to/@grim_fandango/112778376239926349

A Teletext Knightmare adventure!

One of the teletext Knightmare games!

The teletext artist responsible for the image of Bamber Boozler plays through a Bamboozle quiz.

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.

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