Teletext

[davidn]

I have now achieved the debatable accolade of having been on Teletext twice. The first time it was when Digitizer still existed - someone requested a solution to Simon 2 and I sent in my guide. The trouble was that the paragraph I supplied was too long and they had to trim it, meaning my carefully crafted help came out largely as gibberish. This time, it's as part of a feature on freeware games.

For anyone outside Europe, I should explain that Teletext is a basic news/information service broadcast through the television, and is run by an old BBC Micro somewhere in Broadcasting House's attic. It's a bit like the Internet, except even more unreliable and slow.

Comments

[raphx.livejournal.com]

The worst thing was, if you were to press HOLD to stop it from going to quickly, you'd end up missing the next page when you were ready, and would have to wait for it to loop all over again to see it.