Super Page 58
@superpage58.bsky.social
The biggest, longest-running site dedicated to legendary UK teletext video games mag Digitiser. Archiving, documenting and preserving Digi for future generations. Run by Chris Bell since 1997. www.superpage58.com
NEW UPDATE ALERT We have a new @neilmiles.bsky.social '96 Digi recovery in this update, along with 11 upgraded editions, thanks to an all-star cast of heroes. Thanks to @andrewisaround.bsky.social & @zxguesser.bsky.social for making it possible. @mrbiffo.bsky.social www.superpage58.com/update.htm
Come and hang out with us in October, where we'll be doing something silly surrounded by old tech, and going to the pub afterwards. It's free! And the venue is lovely.
Super Page 58@superpage58.bsky.social · 3w agoEvent news: there’s no 2026 Digi Live, but there will be a Blocktoberfest teletext event, organised by David Walford and Peter Kwan, with @mrbiffo.bsky.social and Sanja appearing. Sat 3 Oct 0900-1700, The Sanctuary, Brimscombe Mill, Stroud, Glos. GL5 2QN. Free entry. www.xenoxxx.com/block26/inde...
The Blocktoberfest info page is back online now thanks to @xenoxxx.com :) www.xenoxxx.com/block26/inde...
Teletext Blocktoberfest App
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Super Page 58@superpage58.bsky.social · 2w agoThe site hosting the Bloctoberfest event details is going to be down for maintenance for some time, so the link in this post won’t work until then. The event details in this post still stand though - 3/10/26, The Sanctuary, GL5 2QN, 9am-5pm, free entry, no tickets required.
Sneaked in a bit of repair work while the grandkids are off bouldering. This bit seems to be working. www.xenoxxx.com/block26/inde...
Teletext Blocktoberfest App
xenoxxx.com
The site hosting the Bloctoberfest event details is going to be down for maintenance for some time, so the link in this post won’t work until then. The event details in this post still stand though - 3/10/26, The Sanctuary, GL5 2QN, 9am-5pm, free entry, no tickets required.
Super Page 58@superpage58.bsky.social · 3w agoEvent news: there’s no 2026 Digi Live, but there will be a Blocktoberfest teletext event, organised by David Walford and Peter Kwan, with @mrbiffo.bsky.social and Sanja appearing. Sat 3 Oct 0900-1700, The Sanctuary, Brimscombe Mill, Stroud, Glos. GL5 2QN. Free entry. www.xenoxxx.com/block26/inde...
Kevin Keegan (1951-2026). Retouched #teletext portrait from 2016, originally made for retrotext.uk. #KingKev #NUFC #LFC #Liverpool #sufc #MCFC #Ceefax @englandfootball.bsky.social #Videotext #retrotextuk #Scunthorpe #pixelart #1bit #textmode #football
Just to add to the growing sense of creeping decrepitude the first Digitiser Live was seven years ago today. A lovely tribute to a special man named Bronk.
Event news: there’s no 2026 Digi Live, but there will be a Blocktoberfest teletext event, organised by David Walford and Peter Kwan, with @mrbiffo.bsky.social and Sanja appearing. Sat 3 Oct 0900-1700, The Sanctuary, Brimscombe Mill, Stroud, Glos. GL5 2QN. Free entry. www.xenoxxx.com/block26/inde...
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Re-listened to this tonight. It’s brilliant and funny and pays great tribute to the granddaddy of interactive news media. Maybe a TV show follow-up is coming next? #teletext #ceefax
Jon Harvey@mrjonharvey.bsky.social · 2y agoHappy Merryneum! Loving doing my Times Radio shows. Back on air Sunday 29 Dec, 1pm. Tonight at 10pm on BBC One is Have I Got 2024 For You, which I produced. And on @bbcsounds get some broadcasting history, as Ceefax Strikes Back, with Count Binface! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Well the Teletext Bluesky interface that looks for mentions of Ceefax and Teletext is definitely getting a good workout this week for some reason 😁
Sanja and I go looking for the final resting place of the old Wembley Stadium, where I worked on the scoreboard despite not liking football. We find the rubble, relics and dodgy origins. Plus: I reveal how I upset Bryan Adams so much he was allegedly throwing chairs about. youtu.be/eLmGEh_9Hk4?...
Featuring a a plethora of special guests, utter chaos, and video clips not seen on the night, here's the full, unedited, Digi Live Show from 2021 - just in time for the 5th anniversary! youtu.be/XtHinUsFt28?...
DIGITISER LIVE at Harrow Arts Centre - 2021, featuring Mr Biffo's Found Footage and Cheapshow
YouTube video by Digitiser
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With this excellent new feature meaning the Digi GamesMaster subtitles could actually be shown over the GM picture if found, I thought I’d check the dates we need: 1/11/94 8/11/94 15/11/94 22/11/94 29/11/94 6/11/94 13/11/94 20/12/94 3/1/95 10/1/95 Specifically recordings of GM on those dates.
The Teletext Archaeologist@ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere's where you can get Teletext Player for Ubuntu/Debian Linux, with the all-new live teletext from the playing video tape feature! This will also update when up upgrade stuff on the rest of Ubuntu too! https://software.teletextarchaeologist.org/teletextplayer/
Just working on a bit of Level 2 action for TeletextPlayer
Been heartening to witness the flood of people helping @morefunmakingit.bsky.social rebuild the Retro Hardware Discord from collective memory, after it got wiped out by a hacker. I wasn't in RHD 1.0, so if there's a silver lining, it's that new people like me just became aware of this community.
CommodoreBlog@commodoreblog.uk · last mo.Retro Hardware Discord 2.0 is online. Originally 1600+ members before it was compromised a few days ago. Please join and help rebuild the community. discord.com/invite/szcYa... #RetroGaming
Great interview with @mrbiffo.bsky.social from the big teletext 50th anniversary bash from a couple of years ago. Some kind words about SP58 too - thanks guys!
Jamie Nemeth@jamienemeth.bsky.social · last mo.I'm going in chronological order (at a snail's pace) with the #Teletext50 videos...but next up is the brilliant impromptu interview with @mrbiffo.bsky.social! It's a good watch if you're a Digi fan, but also if you're relatively new to it all, as that's where I'm coming from. youtu.be/8VazX1vAVGY
Here's where you can get Teletext Player for Ubuntu/Debian Linux, with the all-new live teletext from the playing video tape feature! This will also update when up upgrade stuff on the rest of Ubuntu too! https://software.teletextarchaeologist.org/teletextplayer/
Best trip to the Tape Mountain yet last night, went through 6 boxes & found some very juicy looking prospects - including a dozen or so from Digi’s final days in early 2003. That’s now a third of the 2.5k tapes I’ve sorted through & organised. Hit me up if you want a box to recover the teletext from
Best trip to the Tape Mountain yet last night, went through 6 boxes & found some very juicy looking prospects - including a dozen or so from Digi’s final days in early 2003. That’s now a third of the 2.5k tapes I’ve sorted through & organised. Hit me up if you want a box to recover the teletext from
NEW UPDATE ALERT 12 editions of Digi have been recovered by @jamienemeth.bsky.social & are waiting for you now, including the 1996 Christmas Pant-oh! Huge thanks to Jamie & to @andrewisaround.bsky.social & @zxguesser.bsky.social for fixin' 'em up. @mrbiffo.bsky.social www.superpage58.com/update.htm
We had Russian spies as neighbours, and never knew until they were convicted last year. This sparked an adventure that took us from North London down to Dorset... to a Hampshire toilet... as we followed in the footsteps of a KGB spy ring. Come with us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD8K...
I planned to do a "proper" video later, but never managed it 🥲 So here's my first-ever visit to @computinghistory.org.uk for #Teletext50, with dreams of following in @tomscott.com's footsteps, but delivered like the @nostalgianerd.com you got off Temu streaming on RealPlayer 🤣 youtu.be/NFGAky_fHQI
Teletext 50 - live walkaround, nostalgia overload!
YouTube video by Jamie Nemeth
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Seeing as another 2 grails have been chalked off the list recently, why don’t we recap what’s still top of the hitlist to be found. “Excitingly”, the grails still outstanding now number in single digits. List in chronological order happens… NOW
Super Page 58@superpage58.bsky.social · 2mo agoGRAIL: FOUND! The 1996 Christmas pant-oh is ours at last! We have the Mayor of Teletext @jamienemeth.bsky.social to thank once again for this beauty. This completes the pant-oh set - we finally have every single one. Watch this space for the full bumper update. @mrbiffo.bsky.social
It's @countbinface.bsky.social's #teletext manifesto, captured on the Binfax TV Network, 11 June 2026! #Ceefax is back already and he hasn't even won yet. :D #pixelart #1bit #prestel #videotext #viewdata #invision #WiganKebab
GRAIL: FOUND! The 1996 Christmas pant-oh is ours at last! We have the Mayor of Teletext @jamienemeth.bsky.social to thank once again for this beauty. This completes the pant-oh set - we finally have every single one. Watch this space for the full bumper update. @mrbiffo.bsky.social
This is exactly what we need when the infamous Digi subtitles during episodes of GamesMaster are eventually found.
The Teletext Archaeologist@ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere's a couple of scrfeenshots from Teletext Player again, with clearer teletext from a better recording, showing newsflash mode and subtitles - coming straight from a videotape!
