Today I finished converting Elite to use sixels. As a result, Teletext Elite now does everything that the original does, just in teletext.
I’ve got to tie up some loose ends, but I hope to release it next weekend. Watch this space!
@markmoxon I worked on the BBC Teletext systems including the upgrade from 2 VITS lines to 4 back in the 1980s. A colleague designed a new encoder board which was a great improvement. It connected to a #pdp11 DR-11W parallel interface. The software was written in RTL/2 and MACRO-11 under #RSX11M on a PDP-11/34
@markmoxon I worked at Logica which had developed the system with the BBC Research Dept at Kingswood Warren and Aston and VG who made the keyboard terminals for the editors. I installed the systems at Chicago (WLS) and Cincinnati (WKRC) and the ORF teletext subtitling in Vienna. It was a great project!
@peterwhisker I bet! That’s quite a travel itinerary. Kingswood Warren always had the best projects! I do miss Ceefax…
@markmoxon I spent months working in CAR at BBC TV Centre upgrading the systems overnight. It was when Torville and Dean were skating in the Winter Olympics so I guess 1984? The presentation guys worked late with their feet on the desk and a bottle of wine iicr.
@markmoxon @peterwhisker Elite and the BBC micro Teletext adaptor between them, were the sink for many, many hours of my time, all those years ago
@peterwhisker Fantastic! I had a teletext adapter for my BBC Micro and loved downloading telesoftware and programmatically grabbing pages for analysis. It was the web before the web - you built something really amazing there. 👍