cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/27156738

I have been relying on quite poor VOIP service to place calls to large orgs that have call centers. The voice quality was lousy and recently my VOIP provider screwed something up and the service became broken.

I am not deaf but I think TTY might solve my problem. If I need to call a large org/agency that is likely TTY-capable, is this possible without some kind of service? In principle, shouldn’t I be able to connect to a bank or something without using any kind of subscription service? Linux, gnu screen, ssh, a terminal, Internet should be all I need, no?

My searches for TTY either yields results about how deaf people can use dedicated hardware or a Telecommunications Relay Service (“TRS”) -- or the search results are about /dev/tty* which is just a UI for sending commands to a command interpreter (apparently not a human). There are claims that all iPhones and /some/ Androids can do TTY. But doesn’t that still rely on phone service? I prefer NOT to use a phone or phone service.

This question has no answers, but it’s along the lines of what I need. There is this Zapata thing but that project has had no status since 2004.

Update

After more looking, it seems an “IP-TTY” relay service is needed for this situation. Searches so far lead to services that want to force a proprietary app on you, which only works on proprietary platforms.

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Source: https://xcancel.com/AlexHorne/status/2070122087138631799

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/34476223

I happened on another teletext Snoopy! This time from Ceefax 26 Dec 1978

Source: https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/Details/2561761

Please excuse the graphical corruption, these are rescued from old VHS recordings!

Source: https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/Details/2523372 (+ next few subpages)

Harry Hill and "Big Brother Alan" (Al Murray) take a look at what's on television. From The Harry Hill Show, shown on Channel 4, 1997 (or possibly a year or two later).

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/30102286

Found this during my irregular crawl through the Teletext Archive - https://www.teletextarchive.com/Pages/Details/2488892

It's Eurovision week, so a good excuse to (re-)post this teletext inspired video!

RAWR!

Source: https://teletextsuite-qii7k4mljq-uc.a.run.app/Pages/Details/2427773

This originates from Teletext, where the date format made 10th March look like MAR10.

Image source: Super Page 58 https://www.superpage58.com/digitiser-vault-teletext-screenshot-image-archive-1993-01-01.htm

In this teletext graphic adventure game, based upon the classic CITV kids show Knightmare, Digitiser's Mr Biffo and Sanja emba...

Was going to post this to !imaginaryfairies@lemmings.world but it's not a very clean recovery, and I'm unsure if the artist is Julie Chandler or Tricia (can't find her last name).

Source: https://teletextsuite-qii7k4mljq-uc.a.run.app/Pages/Details/2351432 (C4 P551 - 27 Dec 1992)

In 1993, the classic CITV kids show Knightmare became a playable teletext adventure game, giving Bamboozle a week off. Digitiser's own Mr Biffo had a direct hand in its creation - and with Sanja at his side, revisits it once again.

Not for kids!

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/24130031

Bruadhorff: Mother of all Dragons in less than half a page of teletext art, from Eagle Quest

Direct source: https://andrewnile.co.uk/tt/eq/11d.html (but please go to the above link and find it yourself 🙂)

The link contains four Knightmare quests which were on Teletext. Eagle Quest and Swamp Quest are the two newly recovered ones.

if you're familiar with the minitel videotex terminals, you are probably less familiar with our canadian equivalent: bell's AlexTel system. someone managed to send NAPLPS commands to it and made some vector drawings!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BKRfM5HHSM

#minitel #videotex #teletext

From https://www.tumblr.com/teletextart/763878210595323904/26-artists-are-taking-part-in-this-new-teletext50?source=share

26 artists are taking part in this new #teletext50 art exhibition on Yle Text in Finland!

You can view all 101 artworks online here until 11th November 2024:
https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=840

📅 Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd September 2024

🕰️ 10am – 5pm

🗺️ Centre for Computing History, Rene Ct, Coldham’s Rd, Cambridge CB1 3EW (United Kingdom)

In the aftermath of my Teletext experiments on Amiga – which I totally believed to be a world’s first breakthrough – blog reader Martin contacted me to tell me about his own Teletext experiments back in 1992, with a working solution in 1994, making his setup probably the real world’s first Teletext output directly from the Amiga!

In 1974, a brand new technology called teletext was being rolled out. It would, over the next few decades, have far-reaching implications, not only in the UK but worldwide. These are the stories of those involved in the production, restoration and art of the blocky medium that graced UK TV screens until 2012. You’ll hear from the pioneers, those who made teletext tick, and the newcomers keeping the medium alive 50 years after its inception. This is a social record of teletext, and these are the teletext people.

Originally posted on Mastodon here: https://mas.to/@grim_fandango/112778376239926349

A Teletext Knightmare adventure!

One of the teletext Knightmare games!

The teletext artist responsible for the image of Bamber Boozler plays through a Bamboozle quiz.