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Re: Cool Retro Terminal

#11

Post by pjmlp »

mysterydip wrote: post #3

I get the nostalgia appeal, it would be neat for a few minutes, but it doesn't seem like something you could use as your daily driver terminal. If someone has, what's your experience with it?

I surely used actual terminals for amber and green ones, connected to the DG/UX server in one of the student labs.

Not only was something that we could use, it was quite often the only option, as the IBM X Windows thin terminals were quite often busy with people playing either dungeon like games or talk sessions, splited across 4 xterms.

That is why I don't get the CLI revivalism culture, I lived through the days it was the only option.

Re: Cool Retro Terminal

#12

Post by gtirloni »

pjmlp wrote: post #11
mysterydip wrote: post #3

I get the nostalgia appeal, it would be neat for a few minutes, but it doesn't seem like something you could use as your daily driver terminal. If someone has, what's your experience with it?

I surely used actual terminals for amber and green ones, connected to the DG/UX server in one of the student labs. Not only was something that we could use, it was quite often the only option, as the IBM X Windows thin terminals were quite often busy with people playing either dungeon like games or talk sessions, splited across 4 xterms. That is why I don't get the CLI revivalism culture, I lived through the days it…

> That is why I don't get the CLI revivalism culture, I lived through the days it was the only option.

You mean you prefer GUIs as natural evolution of CLIs?

Re: Cool Retro Terminal

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Post by dsr_ »

mysterydip wrote: post #3

I get the nostalgia appeal, it would be neat for a few minutes, but it doesn't seem like something you could use as your daily driver terminal. If someone has, what's your experience with it?

At the time (up through 1993), that was what we had. In open labs, there would be some jockeying for the better (newer, almost always) terminals -- a VT420 with white phosphor being the pinnacle of experiences, anything in amber usually being ranked lower than the same in green, except for one Wyse series I had mostly forgotten, where the green was eye-searingly bad with the brightness up, and muddy/blurry with the brightness down.

And then we had Linux on PCs and that was so much better nobody wanted to use the terminals again if they could avoid them.

Re: Cool Retro Terminal

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Post by aktuel »

gtirloni wrote: post #9
glimshe wrote: post #2

The effects are great! However, these feel like old-old terminals, as in terminals from 80s after decades of use. Good quality phosphor monitors are a lot crisper than the screenshots.

You can disable the effects individually to renew your virtual monitor.

Not just disable also adjust.

Re: Cool Retro Terminal

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Post by weinzierl »

I love this and I used it for fun occasionally. On my MacBook I also used Cathode before, but after I learned about Cool Retro Term the thought crossed my mind that the former might be a rip-off of the later. I do not wish to make any false accusations but the effects are pretty similar and maybe other commenters can confirm or dispel the suspicion.

What I am looking for since some time now is a way to create these effects in good quality in a compositor. It would be much more convenient that way. Free and open would be cool, but I'd also pay for it. Does anyone know if there is a good plugin that works with Nuke, Natron or Blender?

Re: Cool Retro Terminal

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Post by pjmlp »

gtirloni wrote: post #12
pjmlp wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I surely used actual terminals for amber and green ones, connected to the DG/UX server in one of the student labs. Not only was something that we could use, it was quite often the only option, as the IBM X Windows thin terminals were quite often busy with people playing either dungeon like games or talk sessions, splited across 4 xterms. That is why I don't get the CLI revivalism culture, I lived through the days it…

> That is why I don't get the CLI revivalism culture, I lived through the days it was the only option. You mean you prefer GUIs as natural evolution of CLIs?

GUIs and REPL environments, like on Xerox PARC world.

Re: Cool Retro Terminal

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Post by pawelduda »

mysterydip wrote: post #3

I get the nostalgia appeal, it would be neat for a few minutes, but it doesn't seem like something you could use as your daily driver terminal. If someone has, what's your experience with it?

I used it a few years back but I found it crashed far too often (I use tmux so session wasn't lost but still annoying). The visual effects can also be distracting after novelty wears off and performance-wise it doesn't match something like kitty

Re: Cool Retro Terminal

#20

Post by jonas-w »

shortrounddev2 wrote: post #13

Very cool! Windows Terminal will let you use hlsl files to define post-processing shaders so you could achieve this as a plug-in to windows terminal as well!

Windows Terminal already has something similar built in (not as good as TFA) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/custom-te...
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