Cathode: A terminal app for mac that looks really cool

What this needs is a web cam bit to emulate the reflection. Currently you can take a photo of yourself but it's just not good enough :P

I’ve been using this since about version 0.93 and the developer has done a great job with each new update. I’m thrilled to see it on the App Store and with good publicity. I started using because I wanted an authentic terminal experience for hacking around—the slight fuzziness of edges, the phosphor glow when the contrast is turned up too high, the ability to simulate a 1200bps connection—I find it much more captivating than perfect crisp black on white 9-point monaco.

That said, it still has bugs—the game of Life in emacs, for example, totally screws up the screen buffer, and it lacks several functions; shift-home/end to go to the start/end of the command line, and key repeat, to name a couple (and it drives me crazy every time I try to use them in vain). Overall though it’s a great throwback, and conversation starter (really!) and it’s $10 I’ve had no regrets in spending.

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I want one.

I'm surprised to see so many complaints about the price. I was happy to pay $10 just to reward the effort for such an impressively geeky toy when it first showed up a year ago, even though I've never used it for real work.

I will be complaining if the developers only support the App Store version now though.

edit: I hadn't thought about it from the perspective of not being able to play around with it before buying. I wouldn't have based on three screenshots and a one-sentence description. As gammarator mentioned above, there's a free version on the developer's site that's well worth checking out. The granular control of the effects and overall attention to detail is really cool.

Everything is adjustable. You can emulate and finetune only the artifacts you did love from displays of old.