
Max Headroom teletext by Horsenburger, 2023.
Max Headroom teletext by Horsenburger, 2023.
Oracle teletext, via
In 1995 some countries started to broadcast a new British teletext protocol called level 2.5. Likely inspired by the French Antiope standard, it had more colours (4016 instead of 7) and redefinable characters. Few people ever saw it, because if your TV didn’t support it you would just see the classic level 1.
But now ZXGuesser has extracted level 2.5 teletext data from VHS-tapes and figured out how to display it. So the first image shows level 2.5 and the second shows level 1, both taken from this tweet.
Teletext page from 1980 recovered by the Teletext archeologist, @grim_fandango.
Teletext offline reader, a brand new tool to browse teletext on Commodore 64. Very inconvenient = very good.
Teletext graphics by Horsenburger for Mistigris 1117. If you wanna support probably the most active teletext artist, check out his Patreon.