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Ceefax Lives!

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Ceefax Lives!

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Postby XFool » October 20th, 2022, 12:42 pm

Ceefax is dead, long live Ceefax! Meet the fans resurrecting the ingenious service

The Guardian

101, 102, 103, 104 … It wasn’t fast, but it was breathtakingly revolutionary, and Ceefax still has its share of devotees, 10 years after it was turned off. They explain how they are keeping the newsfeed alive

https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/teletext-viewer/

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Re: Ceefax Lives!

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Postby servodude » October 20th, 2022, 9:53 pm

XFool wrote:Ceefax is dead, long live Ceefax! Meet the fans resurrecting the ingenious service

The Guardian

101, 102, 103, 104 … It wasn’t fast, but it was breathtakingly revolutionary, and Ceefax still has its share of devotees, 10 years after it was turned off. They explain how they are keeping the newsfeed alive

https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/teletext-viewer/


I thought that was just going to be folk making retro looking webpages....
now I need to have a look at how they're doing the modulation of the colour-subcarrier on composite out from a pi
Thank goodness it's a Friday

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Re: Ceefax Lives!

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Postby XFool » October 20th, 2022, 10:03 pm

You can even tune the 'telly' to different channels:

https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/

But no Channel 5! Dunno what channel 6 is about. :)

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Re: Ceefax Lives!

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Postby AJC5001 » October 21st, 2022, 12:46 am

XFool wrote:You can even tune the 'telly' to different channels:

https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/viewer/

But no Channel 5! Dunno what channel 6 is about. :)


Channel 3 Page 152

Bamboozle!

Never thought I'd see Bamber Boozler again :D

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Re: Ceefax Lives!

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Postby XFool » October 21st, 2022, 9:28 am

AJC5001 wrote:Channel 3 Page 152

Bamboozle!

Never thought I'd see Bamber Boozler again :D

After many a long year, I tried once again to look up my share prices via BBC 2 p.220 Shares Pages. Wouldn't play ball! Though the market indices were showing. I used to have a PC Teletext card with software to download the pages.

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Re: Ceefax Lives!

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Postby ReformedCharacter » October 21st, 2022, 9:45 am

XFool wrote:I used to have a PC Teletext card with software to download the pages.

Me too, and share prices into a SmartWare database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartWare

RC

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Re: Ceefax Lives!

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Postby MrFoolish » October 21st, 2022, 5:56 pm

XFool wrote:After many a long year, I tried once again to look up my share prices via BBC 2 p.220 Shares Pages. Wouldn't play ball! Though the market indices were showing. I used to have a PC Teletext card with software to download the pages.


Ceefax ended in 2012. I expect a lot of those share prices were higher back then!

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Re: Ceefax Lives!

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Postby NomoneyNohoney » October 21st, 2022, 10:15 pm

Xfool mentioned this before, and I added Ceefax to my Android phone, as mentioned here:
viewtopic.php?f=72&t=32918
Just fyi in case you missed it previously.


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