Teletext adaptor

[Harrison]

Really? I find with digital teletext that often I have to sit and wait with the message "Loading..." on screen.

[TiredOfLife]

Must admit, hardly ever use teletext now since we went digital.
It's just too slow.
Used to use it quite a bit in the days of analogue.
News,Sports news and financial news.

[Stephen Coates]

I find digital text slow, but I think it depends on the speed of the reciever.

I still use analogue text for weather forcasts.

I put a different keyboard in the A500+ and it now works well. The adaptor tuned itself in and tried to put all the channels on the relavant programme number, with the exception of Channel Five, and ITV - it found Tyne Tees first when I wanted Yorkshire, so I just put Tyne Tees on channel 6 and waited for it to find yorkshire. My Tyne Tees signal must be quite good though, because on my old TV, we actually programmed Tyne Tees into channel 3 (probably unknowingly) and that is what I spent most of my time watching.

I did manage to get it to speak the pages. It was good, but I hope that speach is just a little adition, and isn't a feature for the visually impaired users.

You can also save teletext pages as IFF files, and you can print them, either as plain text, or the entire page with graphics. I did this, but a dried up ink ribbon prevented it from looking good.

It also comes with a BBC Emulator disk to use the BBC telesoftware which can be downloaded from the adaptor.

[Harrison]

Does the BBC telesoftware still exist? I remember using that on a BBC Master many years ago.

a dried up ink ribbon prevented it from looking good

Retro as always!

[Stephen Coates]

It is certainly not avaliable on Ceefax any more (obviously).

I did aquire an HP DeskJet recently (for free, along with a Pentium system (133MHz I think)) which seems to work with the amiga, only the colour cartridge in that seems to be dried up.

And I knew for sure that the Amstrad works with the Amiga. I will definately be trying to get the deskjet set up properly though.