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Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs

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Re: Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs

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> romantically distorted past Amusing that it can lead to a romantically distorted future for those terminal users. As someone who came up in that era, I would never want to regain those barrel distortions or incoherent pixels I saw in some of the heavy-handed retro terminals. I paid good money for flatter CRTs and also jumped to LCD with a digital input (DVI) as soon as it was a general option I could justify on a w…

I miss degaussing.

Sure, but that's not continuous and whiny.

It's more like your grumpy livestock grunting once before it leans into a hard day of work in the tech field.

Re: Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs

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It reminds me of Jupiter Hell roguelike (with a tagline "like chess, but played with a shotgun"). It's screen: https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/stea...

lol that’s the smallest image I’ve ever seen Looks like a cool game though, I enjoy a roguelike

My bad, I accidentally posted thumbnail. I meant: https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/stea...

Re: Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs

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I used to daily drive this, most of the effects were minimized but I found that a little bit of white noise really helped make my terminal a lot easier on the eyes to read. I wonder if it is related to how some people find that film grain has a pleasing effect. For those looking at the screenshots note that the terminal is incredibly customizable, you don't have to have all the effects dialed up to 11! Sadly bit rot…

Having the same with audio. I actually like tape hiss. :-O

I miss the old phonecall background hiss, now it's impossible to tell the difference between someone being silent in a call and a disconnected 'line'.
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