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Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

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Re: Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

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Post by john-waterwood »

kubiiii wrote: post #12
digisign wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asteroids was a vector game, interesting technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroids_%28video_game%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor

Better resolution and frames per second than modern games :)

Like a plotter, effectively infinite resolution (not really infinite because of the phosphor elements being finite, but still).

The limitation shifted elsewhere of course, and that's in the complexity of the scene, specifically the number of objects.

Still, interesting tech and can even be adapted to control a laser unit that renders on say a big building or even the clouds (the real ones).

Re: Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

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Post by konradb »

This reminds me that I have two Wyse WY-85 green screen terminals in the attic. I got them when they were being thrown out by a university in 1997 or 1998. They've been sitting there getting more and more depressed and dusty. At some point I really need to grab a Pi and a USBserial adapter and get them up and running. I've seen some blog pages from a couple of other folks who have managed to get them working in a similar way.

At this rate my wife will throw them out with the perfectly valid excuse that if I haven't set them up in the last fifteen years, I'm unlikely to do so in the next fifteen.

Re: Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

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Post by goldfeld »

I've been developing a Clojure on Node.js curses terminal UI library[1] for some months, and though development has been going stronger than ever lately, I feel my motivation doubled up in seeing my interfaces displayed in this glorious orange glow. I should start working on a text game about being alone in a spaceship or a war-ravaged post-apocalypse right now. Suddenly my brother will go from joking that my computer must crash a lot because all he ever sees is terminals to being in awe.

I had tried Cathode for OSX but it didn't work, and now you come and tell me I can have it for free on my linux dev box and that it works flawlessly? Thank you.

[1]: https://github.com/goldfeld/i9n

Re: Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

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Post by hudibras »

Gracana wrote: post #16

Looks pretty good! In reality[1] the "CRT effect" isn't quite so intense, but I think that's just down to settings. This definitely has the right glowy and slightly-fuzzy feel to it. [1] My Wyse-55: http://i.imgur.com/7x2JdmV.jpg

Nice keyboard, too. Must sound like a machine gun going off when you're "in the zone."

Re: Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

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Post by PostOnce »

SG- wrote: post #4

Reminds 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.

I wanted that program badly, there never was a linux port, never got a chance to give them money, now I don't need it.

Almost bought a mac just for that app :p

I'd still buy it if it were available on linux, it's still prettier than this, even though this is very very good.

Re: Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

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Post by tdicola »

faizmokhtar wrote: post #28

Is the borders around it necessary? Because personally I think that it would look great without the borders. Or is it to simulate the roundness of the monitor?

That's what old monitors looked like. They had big thick plastic bezels all around the screen.
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