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Jamie Nemeth @jamienemeth.bsky.social · 7h

Blocktoberfest plus a recent Digitiser recovery off a VHS from the 'tape mountain' of @superpage58.bsky.social have inspired some new Nemetext content at last! The Quote Boat was a feature of Digi on New Year's Eve 1999, with comments from game devs/reps. I'm doing quotes from UK #teletext events.

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'Zine 1: The blocky world as zine by Jamie

p111 The Quote Boat: UK Teletext Events Edition

I found a feature called The Quote Boat in a recent VHS teletext recovery of Digitiser from New Year's Eve 1999.

It featured quotes from game developers and representatives from publishers on various gaming releases and topics.

So, it feels appropriate to adopt the title for featured quotes from teletext events I've attended, especially as I'm sure many of the quotes could be coming from Mr. Biffo himself, or indeed from Mr. Super Page 58, Chris Bell, who runs the so-named Digitiser archive website.

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Fastext links to ChunkyBlog, Nemboozle!, Twitch, Gigs

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The Quote Boat: UK teletext events edition

"It never ceases to amaze me, really, how teletext has had this sort-of afterlife."
- Paul "Mr. Biffo" Rose, Teletext 50

"In the beginning of Ceefax, we were discovering what you could do with the graphics. We used to put experimental designs on the back page where nobody would see them anyway. But we could try things out that way."
- Ian Irving, Teletext 50

Fastext links to ChunkyBlog, Nemboozle!, Twitch, Gigs

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ready to find out if Richard E Grant’s bold gambit of telling everyone he’s a traitor manages to fool the faithful into not thinking he’s a traitor? At least he can use the cloak to appear in more of those 90s rave videos he’s famous for. Has anyone got any Vera’s? superpage58.com/digitiser-vi...

A teletext image of Richard E Grant dressed as Jerry Sadowitz in the video for ‘Ebeneezer Goode’ by The Shamen

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy Blocktoberfest! If you’re joining the teletext community in Stroud, have the best time - and if you can’t make it, the legend that is @jamienemeth.bsky.social is streaming both it and tonight’s pub quiz live here: www.twitch.tv/jamienemeth Keep it blocky, everyone.

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Dan Farrimond @illarterate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mostly it's for fun but you can win an orange, apparently! #teletext

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Dan Farrimond @illarterate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You still have up to about lunchtime on Saturday to enter something for the Blocktoberfest #teletext art competition! Send to: artcomp@xenoxxx.com (Sorry I didn't promote this earlier, I'm a dummy.) #callforentries #tekstitv #ceefax #textart #1bit #pixelart www.xenoxxx.com/block26/inde...

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Teletext Blocktoberfest App

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But that’s not all: Jamie is going to be live streaming Saturday’s Block Party in Stroud on his Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/jamienemeth The event kicks off at 10.30, and the stream will even be live for the pub quiz at 19.30, you lucky people.

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JamieNemeth - Twitch

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On its way now to teletext recovery hero @jamienemeth.bsky.social - 60 tapes carefully selected from the Mountain. Each has been checked: if their labels are right, there’s a missing edition of Digi on each one. That’s 2% of all broadcast Digi in that box. There’s more ready to go if you want a box

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think we need to talk ahead of next year’s event…

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These are all such good ideas. We need some games at an event, and these would be really nice. Crashing Teefax notwithstanding, having a built-in way of keeping players honest would be very handy ;)

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Dan Farrimond @illarterate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Submit now! Do it naow! Yalghhh (Message to self. Might delete later.)

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh, that’s a lovely idea - would you permit the old trick of changing your answer before the ‘bad luck’ screen loads, or are you drawing the line at that? Wonder if we could do something like that at next year’s Block Party, to coincide with the SP58 30th anniversary?

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This newsburst comes thanks to teletext community stalwart and Blocktoberfest co-organiser David Walford. You’ll want to be on his team at the pub quiz.

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Chunkytext is also open for your artwork submissions blockparty.zxnet.co.uk

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Block Party teletext editing server

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This just in: there’s a teletext pub quiz in the evening! www.theprincealbertstroud.co.uk/whats-on/tel... This should surely be enough to entice you along, but even if @mrbiffo.bsky.social and Sanja sadly can’t now attend.

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BLOCKTOBERFEST: TELETEXT QUIZ — The Prince Albert

A teletext quiz as part of this year’s Blocktoberfest! FREE

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Only 1 week to go until the 2026 Teletext Blocktoberfest. Head to Stroud for an array of exhibits on the blocky medium, and how to recover it from VHS tapes. Sat 3 Oct 0900-1700, The Sanctuary, Brimscombe Mill, Stroud, Glos. GL5 2QN. Free entry, no need to book. www.xenoxxx.com/block26/inde...

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Teletext Blocktoberfest App

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willmill82 @willmill82.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Happy #NationalTeletextDay to those who celebrate. Why not do what I just did and visit @superpage58.bsky.social's website* and get a Digitiser still from their 16th birthday? In this episode, Dennis goes to Hull.

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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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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The album ‘Humdrum’ by Home Counties is very worth checking out, if you’re not familiar. Quietly crept up and became my album of last year.

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sound.and.vision / Dan @sound-and-vision.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Don't talk to me... I just realised that I've wasted an hour of having to listen to The Bill when the teletext capture wasn't even running

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Not update-klaxon-level, but there's a new entry in the Digitiser A-Z about Digi's early history with Amiga reviews, after they were "persuaded" to cover the declining system by its rabid fans. Big thanks to David Walford for uncovering the link with Amiga Format www.superpage58.com/do-you-see-d...

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Do You See? The Digitiser A-Z | Super Page 58 | The Digitiser Tribute Site

The complete A to Z of Digitiser, the most comprehensive and exhaustive Digi encyclopaedia available anywhere ever. Brought to you by Super Page 58, the longest-running site dedicated to Digitiser, th...

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Do You See? The Digitiser A-Z | Super Page 58 | The Digitiser Tribute Site

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soyuzteletext500.bsky.social @soyuzteletext500.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

advertisement created by @illarterate.bsky.social HBN Teksti-TV is a free service to advertise on the 651 newsreel, lets try to get the newsreel to be as chaotic as teledata! This is a community oriantated project and everyone is welcome to advertise!

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Dan Farrimond @illarterate.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

6th September final deadline for yle100-specific stuff! TV and radio could be a prompt, as well as the overall yle100 theme "shared moments". #callforentries #textmode #teletext #ceefax #pixelart

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Don’t say I didn’t warn you… web.archive.org/web/19990418...

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Rabid Racers!

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

August 1996: the official Digitiser website is now live on teletext.co.uk! Did anyone play Rabid Racers? You still can on archive.org (not recommended)

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

...And the rest of the Alien War feature

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Here's a nice curio: a Digi feature on the Alien War live action experience in London, October 1993

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

January 1997: let me guess, Chris Evans has just been sacked by Radio One...?

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

NEW UPDATE ALERT 10 more editions of Digi for you now, found by @sound-and-vision.bsky.social, anon gent, & Robust Reviews; fixed-up by @andrewisaround.bsky.social & @zxguesser.bsky.social. Huge thanks to all! P Walker has a mysterious pink beret? www.superpage58.com/update.htm @mrbiffo.bsky.social

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Really loved this series and still have the DVD. The Italian barber bemoaning his Womble infestation was genius. I still laugh when I think of his pronunciation of “Madame Cholet”.

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

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sound.and.vision / Dan @sound-and-vision.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

More Teletext recoveries processed tonight, with this really nice one from 10th October 1992 where someone asks about what will replace the beloved Oracle, with the initially confusing Teletext service "Teletext on 3" and "Teletext on 4"

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cheers Jason! I got a teletext-themed card! Though not made with real teletext ;)

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Haha, thanks Ivenne! I’ve been holding onto that page for a while now, ready for this moment ;)

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cheers Treacle! Lots of 🎂 in prospect 😋

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Good luck Leyton, rooting for you

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cheers Neil! Let me know if The Man’s Daddy’s jokes make any more or less sense after that.

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today’s my birthday, and I’m delighted to say that after all these years, I’ve finally reached Digitiser’s target market. I look forward to getting all the jokes!

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Another box of 60 tapes culled from the Mountain and handed to @neilsmiles.com to work his teletext recovery magic. Thanks Neil! If you’d also like a batch to release the teletext from its magnetic tape prison, let me know and I’ll send them to you (if you’re in the UK or Ireland, I’ll pay postage).

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

On that note, give me a shout if you want another box o’ tapes from the Mountain, Neil :)

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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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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Nice! Sounds like you’re good for a while yet, but give me a shout if you start running low and want more 😁

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

How’s your tape situation looking, Dan? Many still to get through? Give me a shout if you want more, I’ve got thousands :)

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sound.and.vision / Dan @sound-and-vision.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Tape #153 gives us one final "first" teletext recovery with another CEEFAX ORBIT service from 7th January 1981. Here's a review of the just released Flash Gordon movie. A relatively decent recovery, if for a few squiffy bits. computer-legacy.com/res/teletext...

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Super Page 58 @superpage58.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Woohoo! Look forward to seeing it, thanks Dan 😁

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