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BillyH
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Just going back through my old hard drive from my long-ditched Windows 98 computer from the early noughties, and found the folder for the Teletext encoder that came free with the old TV capture card I bought at the time. Running the program itself doesn't work on my current Windows 7 machine - it just gives a ton of error messages and fails to boot, plus with Teletext (and analogue TV) no longer existing it would be fairly useless anyway. But then I spotted the 'Cache' folder...
It looks like the program's saved a small selection of various Ceefax and ITV Teletext pages from random dates in time, in the .VTC file format. Opening them with Notepad you can read them all in plain text format, and the dates are all over the place - earliest stuff is from 2002 and latest from 2005, which was just before I upgraded the computer. I don't think the entire indexes have been saved or anywhere near it, just whatever pages I presumably loaded at the time - having a quick look through Notepad that's a grab bag of news, sport, TV listings and various entertainment pages. Just found in one file the top 10 video game charts for the Nintendo 64, Playstation 2, Game Boy Advance and Sega Dreamcast!
Question is, is there a way to turn them back into the original graphic Teletext files or is that a lost cause? Now Teletext is a thing of the past it would be nice to have at least some sort of small archive, if not a comprehensive one. Thanks for any help!
It looks like the program's saved a small selection of various Ceefax and ITV Teletext pages from random dates in time, in the .VTC file format. Opening them with Notepad you can read them all in plain text format, and the dates are all over the place - earliest stuff is from 2002 and latest from 2005, which was just before I upgraded the computer. I don't think the entire indexes have been saved or anywhere near it, just whatever pages I presumably loaded at the time - having a quick look through Notepad that's a grab bag of news, sport, TV listings and various entertainment pages. Just found in one file the top 10 video game charts for the Nintendo 64, Playstation 2, Game Boy Advance and Sega Dreamcast!
Question is, is there a way to turn them back into the original graphic Teletext files or is that a lost cause? Now Teletext is a thing of the past it would be nice to have at least some sort of small archive, if not a comprehensive one. Thanks for any help!