MODE 7 Teletext Test Pages
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Standard engineering test page

This is the standard teletext engineering test page that was transmitted on BBC 1 page 197. It was grabbed from off-air teletext with a BBC teletext adaptor. From the timestamp I downloaded this off air on Monday 21st October 1985, in late afternoon after school lessons. I have tweeked it slightly to set the seconds of the time to be zero, so that line zero ends in "00", and replaced the service text with "ENGINEERING".
 

TESTPG23 : TESTPG23.dat
TEST4023.dat : TEST6423.dat
Teletext Engineering Test Page
23-line standard engineering test page

TESTPG24H : TESTPG24H.dat
TEST4024H.dat : TEST6424H.dat
Teletext Engineering Test Page
23-line test page with header line

TESTPG24 : TESTPG24.dat
TEST4024.dat : TEST6424.dat
Teletext Engineering Test Page
24-line standard engineering test page

TESTPG25 : TESTPG25.dat
TEST4025.dat : TEST6425.dat
Teletext Engineering Test Page
25-line standard engineering test page
Teletext page file containing rows 1 to 23. Grabbed directly from off-air teletext with a BBC teletext adaptor. MODE 7 screen dump of a teletext page file containing rows 1 to 23 with a display header added. Teletext page file containing rows 1 to 24. Teletext page file containing rows 0 to 24. A standard MODE 7 screen dump.
The 40x files are 1K files with each 40-character row running 'naturally' 40-character offsets.
The 64x files are 2K files with each row padded to 64 bytes, suitable for 'lazy' address decoding.
The TESTPG files contain bytes &20-&9F, display characters have bit 7 clear, control codes have bit 7 set.
The TEST40xx.dat and TEST64xx.dat files are 6-bit files with bit 7 cleared in all bytes.

Authored by J.G.Harston
Last update: 18-Nov-2023