2022/08/07

Demosceners Exploit Vintage Teletext Standard for Real-Time Animation

Pushing the vintage tv text and graphics standard into overdrive, 420 Years of Teletext is released at the Evoke demoparty in Cologne. Coder Losso managed to software-generate a teletext signal from a Raspberry Pi that, hooked up to an old-fashioned CRT television set, uses hardware exploits for nifty frame-buffering tricks (more on GitHub). The result: a zany teletext origin story featuring smooth animations, pixel graphics, demoscene in-jokes, and a rocking chiptune track.

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