“Why are you upset, honey?”

“It’s just a mug…” :(

Of course, I’m not really upset! Well, not upset-upset; ignore the teeth-grinding noises. I try to move on, and accept that out of a hundred cups that we own this is the one that takes a dent.

Also, it’s not that there wasn’t a way to replace this mug with a new one in the future – even if it’s the distant future! :)

PS: Since I’m on vacation and don’t post a lot: Here is where I got that mug…

Four years ago, I was toying around with Teletext rendering prototypes for an Amiga demo. Those prototypes quickly turned into a demo in its own right, and I put aside the original goal of doing this on the Amiga.

That demo became 420 Years of Teletext.

Teletext output on the Amiga took another year to crack. It then turned out it wasn’t a “world’s first” achievement after all, but fun was had all around!

Back then, it was only a month before the party (Evoke 2022) when we had proof: This can actually work! The demo was already half done when Green hooked up the trusty Nokia TV of his youth, and it ran some effects in 25 fps. I only had a stupid smart TV myself, and the software-based Teletext rendering in those devices cops out at seven frames per second. Lame!

THAT was a relief!

At the party place, we recorded the thing hours before the deadline with Ghost’s mobile phone in a dark orga room, and this has been the only proper recording of the demo ever since.

Until now! A higher-resolution version is on YouTube, too. Enjoy and learn all about Teletext’s history! :)