Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
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#2Awesome! I remember seeing this on reddit earlier in the year when it was in much earlier stages. Looks really great now!
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#3Looks like something out of Fallout. Awesome. Just the kind of thing you need on your Pip Boy.
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#4Reminds of "Cathode" app for OSX:
http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
it seems they have an iOS version now too that lets you SSH to your servers. Also I believe the demo version would appear as tho the cathode screen was about to fail and get worse and worse.
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#5$ ./cool-retro-term
loadAllColorSchemes
There's a menu, but nothing clickable. It's interesting though. If I "touch /tmp/asdf", then the file gets written. So it is actually executing what I type, it's just not displaying anything?
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Re: Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
#6In a modern world where we backlight semiconductors to produce high dpi screens, it almost feels weird to think we used to fire electron guns towards our eyes. I was always partial to the amber screen.
Has anyone recently played with an old Asteroids cabinet? The screen is a black and white CRT. When you fire a missile, the screen effect is insanely bright. I'd forgotten just how intense that was.
I can't wait until someone pieces together an art piece that makes use of all the crazy analog video effects that we used to take for granted, but now look like alien technology.
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#7Well done... down to getting to color of an old vt220 right... (that's the orange one)
Re: Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
#8Reminds of "Cathode" app for OSX: http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ it seems they have an iOS version now too that lets you SSH to your servers. Also I believe the demo version would appear as tho the cathode screen was about to fail and get worse and worse.
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Re: Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
#9In a modern world where we backlight semiconductors to produce high dpi screens, it almost feels weird to think we used to fire electron guns towards our eyes. I was always partial to the amber screen. Has anyone recently played with an old Asteroids cabinet? The screen is a black and white CRT. When you fire a missile, the screen effect is insanely bright. I'd forgotten just how intense that was. I can't wait until…
Asteroids was a vector game, interesting technology:
Re: Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
#10Looks like something out of Fallout. Awesome. Just the kind of thing you need on your Pip Boy.
make it into an app, and strap a smart phone to your wrist -- voila!