20-11-2021, 09:33 AM
This is a bootable DS80 disk image of all the Viatel saved pages extracted off 3 Microbee disks found that had them, one being mine. Included is Videotex v1.53 that can load and display them all. There are some Microbee pages in the 860610 & 860804 files and some Microbee System share prices in 27-12-85. The main Microbee page is the 2nd page in SCREENS.
Australia's national public Videotex service, Viatel, was launched by Telecom Australia on 28 February 1985 and was based on the British Prestel service. The service was later renamed Discovery 40, in reference to its 40 column screen format, as well as to distinguish it from another Telecom service, Discovery 80. The Viatel system had a very rapid take up in its first year with Microbee being an early member of the service, member 225, while Dick Smith Electronics was member 3457.
The current videotex_saved_files.zip file in the Repository, which was just a collection of individual JPG and VTL files from 2 disks, has been replaced with an updated collection and now on a bootable disk image ready to view them. Simply run VTEX153 and at the menu type in LOAD SCREENS (for example) it will then indicate on the bottom line by blanking out the screen number of the pages that have been saved within the file. Pressing 1 followed by Return will show Page 1, 2 will show Page 2, etc. Up to 20 could have been saved, but these files only have 1 to 12 pages.
Screen dumps of most of the pages have also been put up on archive.org. There are 98 of them with the Microbee Main page at #47. So check them out at https://archive.org/details/videotex_via...es_1985-86
So in the MBeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\System_files\Viatel folder we placed
videotex_saved_files_ds80.dsk
Australia's national public Videotex service, Viatel, was launched by Telecom Australia on 28 February 1985 and was based on the British Prestel service. The service was later renamed Discovery 40, in reference to its 40 column screen format, as well as to distinguish it from another Telecom service, Discovery 80. The Viatel system had a very rapid take up in its first year with Microbee being an early member of the service, member 225, while Dick Smith Electronics was member 3457.
The current videotex_saved_files.zip file in the Repository, which was just a collection of individual JPG and VTL files from 2 disks, has been replaced with an updated collection and now on a bootable disk image ready to view them. Simply run VTEX153 and at the menu type in LOAD SCREENS (for example) it will then indicate on the bottom line by blanking out the screen number of the pages that have been saved within the file. Pressing 1 followed by Return will show Page 1, 2 will show Page 2, etc. Up to 20 could have been saved, but these files only have 1 to 12 pages.
Screen dumps of most of the pages have also been put up on archive.org. There are 98 of them with the Microbee Main page at #47. So check them out at https://archive.org/details/videotex_via...es_1985-86
So in the MBeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\System_files\Viatel folder we placed
videotex_saved_files_ds80.dsk
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