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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

QTeletextMaker v1.0 released. The Level 2.5 #teletext editor has always been compilable on Linux but it's now downloadable as an AppImage too. From github.com/gkthemac/QTe... where the usual Windows exe within a zip can also be found (mind the SmartScreen warnings!).

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Release 1.0 AppImage and side panel bugfixes · gkthemac/QTeletextMaker

New AppImage build: QTeletextMaker is now downloadable as an AppImage for Linux. Tweaks: Application icon added. a25aec5 Radio button added to select which side(s) the side panels are on. 95e861...

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Dan Farrimond @illarterate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And here's how that Pages From #Ceefax artwork looked in glorious Level 2.5! My pastiche is only made for Level 1, though. #NationalTeletextDay

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Russty Russ @russtyruss.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Level 1 and Level 2 Ceefax #NationalTeletextDay

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Time for another Level 2.5 #teletext recreation of an album cover. This time it is Telex's 1979 album "Looking for Saint Tropez", worth checking out just for their cover of "Rock around the clock"!

A Level 2.5 teletext re-creation of the album cover "Looking for Saint Tropez" by Telex.

An abstract artwork based on a television test card divided into six horizontal sections.

The first section has the word "Telex" in a white calculator-like segment font on a black rectangle set upon a light blue strip with a partial grid of white lines.

The second section is five coloured squares, in order from left-to-right they are coloured yellow, mid-blue, green, pink and red.

The third section in the middle is a black strip with a white horizontal line through the middle interspresed with vertical lines.

The fourth section is alternating black and white vertical stripes.

The fifth section is five rectangles in varying shades of grey, from dark grey on the left to white on the right.

The sixth section at the bottom is a light blue strip with the text "Looking for St Tropez" in white. In the middle of the strip is a narrow red triangle pointing downwards.

A Level 1 teletext re-creation of the album cover "Looking for Saint Tropez" by Telex.

An abstract artwork based on a television test card divided into six horizontal sections.

The first section has the word "Telex" in a white calculator-like segment font on a black rectangle set upon a cyan strip with a partial grid of white lines.

The second section is five coloured squares, in order from left-to-right they are coloured yellow, blue, green, magenta and red.

The third section in the middle is a black strip with a white horizontal line through the middle interspresed with vertical lines.

The fourth section is alternating black and white vertical stripes.

The fifth section is five rectangles. The left-most rectangle is black, the middle three rectangles have varying stipple patterns and the righ-tmost rectangle is white.

The sixth section at the bottom is a cyan strip with the text "Looking for St Tropez" in white. In the middle of the strip is a narrow red triangle pointing downwards.

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PeterKVT80 @xenoxxx.com · 05/09/2026

#teletext Blocktoberfest is coming to Stroud on October 3. Hope to see you there. www.xenoxxx.com/block26/inde...

Teletext page inviting people to Blocktoberfest 2026 on October 3

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 02/09/2026

🟩 TELETEXT | A page from Central TV's overnight Jobfinder service. Can't imagine too many Midlands houses had this view out their window. But teletext loved a palm tree. >> CLIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ad...

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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

With #teletext you never had to muck about with CAPTCHAs. The 30 second or so wait for your selected page to appear was much more bearable in comparison.

A teletext page with the header "captchoozle!".

At the top of the page is the prompt "to verify you are a human, select the image of a car". There are a group of four large icons arranged as a two by two grid of black icons on white rectangular backgrounds. Each icon has a prompt above consisting of a coloured square and the name of that colour next to the square.

The icons are of a tram with a "red" prompt, a tractor with a "green" prompt, a car with a "yellow" prompt and a lorry with a "blue" prompt.

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A #teletext recreation of tonight's #emergencyalert Back in the day, could Ceefax and/or Oracle have replaced every transmitted page with an alert so it would have appeared no matter what page you selected?

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Dan Farrimond @illarterate.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Collaborative artwork made on tonight's #Teletext #SofaClub live show! It's our first one taking advantage of MUTTLEE's new Level 2 capabilities. Thank you to all contributors! 😎 #pixelart #ceefax #binface

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

After the Godley and Creme easter egg, another pop duo inspires another #teletext food brand knock-off.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 10/07/2026

🟩 CEEFAX | @countbinface.bsky.social might be campaigning to bring back Ceefax... ...but it's been back for some time. The live newsreel + musak is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OU... The more conventional interactive service is here: nmsceefax.co.uk Enjoy!

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Pages from Ceefax

YouTube video by Nathan Dane

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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Here're a couple more ORACLE enhanced teletext tests

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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hello there from Level 2 Teletext Player! This test page was shown in the late 80s / v early 90s, I saw it a lot but only in Level 1

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The Teletext Archaeologist @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just working on a bit of Level 2 action for TeletextPlayer

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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Bluesky will be read-only overnight, and broadcast in-vision on BBC 2 for viewers without a teletext enabled smartphone.

Screenshot of a current page of Teletext Bluesky on Chunkytext

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A tribute to the artist David Hockney, a #teletext recreation of his 1967 work "A Bigger Splash". I find it so odd that it's a teletext artwork with palm trees, that is *not* advertising a holiday.

A Level 2.5 teletext recreation of "A Bigger Splash" by David Hockney.

A swimming pool with a diving board on the right. Water is splashing from the pool as if someone has just dived in. In the background is a single storey house with a flat roof and large sliding glass doors, in front of which is a director's chair. To the right of the house are two tall palm trees.

A Level 1 teletext recreation of "A Bigger Splash" by David Hockney.

A swimming pool with a diving board on the right. Water is splashing from the pool as if someone has just dived in. In the background is a single storey house with a flat roof and large sliding glass doors, in front of which is a director's chair. To the right of the house are two tall palm trees.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Yet another new idea before I've finished (or started) the other new ideas... Chunkytube: a collection of playlists of any YouTube content I find that's UK-teletext-related. No AI has been involved in the scrobbling...it's all done by a human, i.e. me. www.youtube.com/@ChunkyTubeUK #Teletext

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Chunkytube

Curated playlists of videos from across YouTube which relate to the UK's teletext services, past and present.

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

JobFinder on ITV was a great showcase for Level 2.5 #teletext, both for smooth colourful artworks and the variety of designs possible for text pages. Sadly in-vision only; was never on VBI lines for us to unravel the mysteries of the X/26 triplets that made it all work. youtu.be/EoTIKjyIF-4?...

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Central Adverts & Continuity | Central News Headlines | Jobfinder '87 | 11th / 12th September 1987

YouTube video by Neil Miles

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Level 2.5 #teletext has 16 redefinable and 16 fixed colours. But Level 3.5 allows all 32 colours to be redefined. The 16 colours of CLUTs 2 and 3 are redefined, and by redefining a further 4 colours and using 9 remaining colours as is, we can shoehorn in all 29 colours of Joseph's dreamcoat.

A Level 3.5 teletext page showing some of the lyrics of "Joseph's Coat".

The lyrics are:
"It was red, yellow, green, brown,
scarlet, black, ochre, peach,
ruby, olive, violet, fawn,
lilac, gold, chocolate, mauve,
cream, crimson, silver, rose,
azure, lemon, russet, grey,
purple, white, pink, orange and blue!"

Each named colour appears on a rectangle of the same colour.

At the bottom is the text "Rose is CLUT 0:5. Gold, Cream and Lemon are in CLUT 1 and applied with a Level 3.5 only Object."

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A current #teletext front page with a small high resolution graphic replacing the typical blocky logo rendition, courtesy of Level 2.5 DRCS.

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Happy Easter to all the #teletext nerds and fans with a Level 2.5 chocolate egg wrapped in G3 smooth mosaics. Again the trademarked names have been changed to protect the innocent artist from copyright lawyers.

A Level 2.5 teletext graphic of an Easter egg in wrapping. The wrapping has a cartoon of a yellow chick in the middle of a background that is red on the left-half of the egg and blue on the right-half. The egg is set on a plain purple background.

At the top left is the text "Crudeberry's". At the bottom right is the text "Godley Egg" on a yellow rectangle.

A Level 1 teletext graphic of an Easter egg in wrapping. The wrapping has a cartoon of a yellow chick in the middle of a background that is red on the left-half of the egg and blue on the right-half. The egg is set on a plain magenta background.

At the top left is the text "Crudeberry's". At the bottom right is the text "Godley Egg" on a yellow rectangle.

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PeterKVT80 @xenoxxx.com · 02/04/2026

Artemis launch in #teletext level 2.5

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

Teletext on a Satfinder. Well, blow me.

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A way to post #teletext art on social media WITHOUT using an image?

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A #teletext tribute to Terence Burridge who passed away a year ago today. His TV Whirl website lives on. www.tvwhirl.co.uk

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Nathan Dane @nmsni.co.uk · 02/02/2026

The Pages from Ceefax live stream has now been running for a full year - as of about 5pm (GMT). www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OU...

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Pages from Ceefax

YouTube video by Nathan Dane

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A #teletext artwork of Bertha from the animated TV series of the same name, the huge, slightly sentient but lovely factory machine who could make anything. Some three decades before 3D printers became affordable.

A teletext artwork of Bertha, a green industrial machine with features resembling a face including white round eyes, a red nose and a large hatch like a huge mouth. The top of the hatch has white protective flaps that look like teeth and at the bottom is a conveyor belt resembling a tongue.

Text above and below the machine reads "Bertha, lovely Bertha, you are a lovely machine!"

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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Teletextmas and a Blocky New Year.

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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer: zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

QTeletextMaker 0.8.2-beta released. For AZERTY keyboard users the Level 2.5 #teletext editor has alternate keymappings for inserting colour attributes, using the top row of letters without having to Shift the numbers every time. Windows .exe from the zip as usual: github.com/gkthemac/QTe...

A diagram of a partial AZERTY keyboard layout with coloured keys.

From left to right: the "1" and "A" keys are red, the "2" and "Z" keys are green, the "3" and "E" keys are yellow, the "4" and "R" keys are blue, the "5" and "T" keys are magenta, the "6" and "Y" keys are cyan, the "7" and "U" keys are white and the "0" and "P" keys are black.

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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday. #Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art

Teletext mockup/art inspired by yesterday's Cloudflare outage.

P100 Teletext 100 Nov18 14:00:13

Internal server error
Visit Cloudflare on p799 for more info.
2025-11-18 14:00:13 UTC

Pixel art of a TV with bunny-ear aerial with a green tick, a TV transmitter with a red tick, and a PC with a green tick.

You, TV: Working
London, Cloudflare: Error
Teletext, Host: Working

What happened?
There is an internal error on Cloudflare's network.

What can I do?
Please try again in a few minutes.

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Were colour bitmap graphics possible in #teletext ? With Level 3.5 DRCS they could have been. But hopelessly impractical; all the bitmap data is stored across 8 subpages and you'd need to wait for them all to come around. Just for that one picture that's the biggest size possible in 16 colours.

A teletext page with a small 16 colour bitmap picture on the right of a Scarlet Macaw parrot sitting on a metal frame.

On the left is the explanatory text "Level 3.5 DRCS. Mode 2 characters, 12x10 pixels of 4 bitplanes or 16 colours. 96 DRCS characters over 384 PTUs stored across 8 subtables. 12 rows of 8 columns or 96x120 pixels."

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Level 2.5 #teletext needn't be that hard. Sometimes a simple palette remap is all an artwork needs to stand out.

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

QTeletextMaker v0.8.1-beta released. No new features but the Level 2.5 #teletext editor has had a major bug squashed that sometimes caused the central page editor widget to get "lost" or squashed into a tiny corner of the main window. Windows .exe from the zip as usual: github.com/gkthemac/QTe...

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

QTeletextMaker v0.8-beta released. The Level 2.5 #teletext editor now renders DRCS characters and slightly improved diacritical'd G0 capital letters. Grab a Windows exe from the zip at github.com/gkthemac/QTe... (mind the SmartScreen warnings!) or compile the source on Linux with #Qt6 and CMake.

A Level 2.5 teletext page with a dark green background on which there a spread of five playing cards. The top-most card on the right is the ten of clubs, the cards underneath are the jack of clubs, queen of clubs, king of clubs and the ace of clubs.

The clubs on the cards are not blocky but are high resolution images courtesy of DRCS character definitions.

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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

All the tellies up and running at #ChunkyFringe

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

As if black foreground wasn't controversial enough, should modern Level 1 and 1.5 #teletext decoders obey the double width and double height control codes? The ETSI spec says they are Level 2.5 only, but in real life some Level 1 and 1.5 decoders made since about 1999-ish do interpret them.

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Nathan Dane @nmsni.co.uk · 01/10/2025

zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Another reminder that the #ChunkyFringe teletext editing system is online for anyone to have a go at creating real teletext pages: blockparty.zxnet.co.uk Channel your inner @mrbiffo.bsky.social* and come and admire your creations in all their chunky glory on CRT tellies in Harrow this Saturday!

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Ahh, good old #teletext with no cookie pop-ups, no registrations or sign-ins, no autoplaying videos... and no sudden geo-blocks either.

A teletext page mostly of a magenta background with the text "Content not viewable in your region" in the middle. At the top left is the text "Frame it" and at the bottom is the text "John, 5".

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gkmac @gkmac.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

For the upcoming #ChunkyFringe the #WeeklyTeletextArt prompt is "Chunky" and/or "Fringe". Here's a #teletext nod to an old chocolate advert; regrettably trademarks have had to be altered for legal reasons.

A Level 2.5 teletext graphic of a blue and white chocolate bar wrapping on a purple background.

The wrapping has the word "Diary Bilk" in big serif letters, with "Crudeberry's" in smaller gold text above and "Chunky" in the corner. Below the bar is the slogan "one chunk leads to another".

A Level 1 teletext graphic of a blue and white chocolate bar wrapping on a magenta background.

The wrapping has the word "Diary Bilk" in big serif letters, with "Crudeberry's" in smaller yellow text above and "Chunky" in the corner. Below the bar is the slogan "one chunk leads to another".

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MrBiffo @mrbiffo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

One week today... we're going to be doing a whole bunch of nonsense at Chunky Fringe. It's all the fun of Digi Live without us having to spend a fortune on props. Details here: www.arbitraryfiles.com/events/cf25/...

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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The ChunkyText user pages magazine has been cleared out ready for next weekend, and the edit server is LIVE NOW. blockparty.zxnet.co.uk I thought since we have a week to go until Chunky Fringe maybe we should call those a #WeeklyTeletextArt prompt for anyone needing a bit of artistic inspiration 😁

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