vbit-config 'install service' menu on the Raspberry Pi. VBIT (or more precisely, VBIT2) is the software by Peter Kwan that enables Teletext to be displayed on a TV over the composite video output using a Raspberry Pi. Grey menu on a blue background. Menu text reads: Choose service to install 0 - Ceefax 1 - Chunkytext 2 - Nemetext 3 - SPARK 4 - Teefax C - Custom service 'OK' and 'Back' buttons.

e-motion 4:3 LCD TV displaying Nemetext, my Teletext service. In front of the TV, resting on the base of the TV, is the TV's remote control, and a Raspberry Pi 1 in a translucent green case, with an RCA lead (black lead, yellow plugs) connected. The TV is on top of a VCR. Teletext displayed is page 199 from Nemetext, at time 00:01:21, which is an A-Z. The first page is shown. A About Nemetext 101 About Teletext 102 C Chunky Fringe '23 (blog) 123 Credits 198 G Gigitiser (Jamie's gig list) 616 N Nemboozle! (quiz) 152 Page 1 of 2 Fastext links to Index (red), Credits (green), 'Zine 1 (yellow) and Gigs (blue)

I didn't get around to mentioning before #Teletext50, that I feel honoured for #Nemetext to have been added to the services available via the software you can use to get Teletext on your own TV using a Raspberry Pi.

I'll post a link in the replies to a guide that shows you how!

Screenshot from my Teletext service, Nemetext, page 110. Title: 'Zine 1, the blocky world as zine by Jamie p130 CHUNKY FRINGE 2023: THE UNFINISHED BLOG In an attempt to shame myself into finishing my blocky blog about LAST YEAR'S event BEFORE this year's, I'm putting what I've done so far LIVE on Nemetext! p152 NEMBOOZLE! A quiz that'll either help you learn a bit about me, or realise that the quiz is as totally unfair and impossible as the pub quiz I went to once where the tie-breaker was to guess one of the bar staff's birthdays! "HOW ON EARTH AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT?!?!"

The question that's been on no-one's lips for over a year..."will Jamie ever finish writing that #ChunkyFringe blog?"

And the answer is...no!

But I've published my work-in-progress anyway 😛
#Teletext #Teletext50 #Nemetext

WHAT IS NEMETEXT? P101 SEEING THIS ON JAMIE'S WEBSITE? Use the number keys to go to a page number, or R G Y B for Fastext links. SEEING THIS ON JAMIE'S TWITCH CHANNEL? Type !tv in chat for instructions. About Nemetext 101 About Teletext. 110 Credits 199 Events 120 Gig List 616 Twitch Index 200 Join the Nemethsphere Discord: discord.gg/gzu5nf5meM

What is Teletext? In the United Kingdom, Teletext is a nostalgic feature that used to be on our TVs over a decade ago. But internationally, Teletext (in this form) is still very much in use! Before the digital TV switchover in the UK (2007-2012), parts of the TV picture that were hidden off-screen were used to transmit digital data in the form of light and dark dots, which the Teletext decoder on the TV could read/convert. You would sometimes be able to see this when changing channels / when adjusting the vertical hold, which brought the hidden lines into view (briefly).

Apologies to everyone who has been unable to discover what #Teletext is/was, until now 😛

My 'About Teletext' page has been listed as page 110 since I created #Nemetext last year, which is a bit embarrassing as there's never been a page 110...

It should have said page 102 😛