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= GLTerminal, from 2002: http://ldopa.net/2006/01/14/glterminal/
What, didn't everyone else get an actual vt100 from college surplus for $5 and keep it running?
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A fun trick? Are you kidding me? I've never spend money that fast before (I had bought it before it got in the App Store). Cathode is awesome, especially if, like me, you have ever worked in such an environment (VT100 etc). I even dropped iTerm 2 and use Cathode all day long. Something about the blast-from-the-past feel makes me more productive and feel like an ol' hacker. Only wish it had tabs.
Old VTs are cheap on eBay and are fun to play with. http://www.flickr.com/photos/symmetricalism/6854396657/light...
It's a neat toy, but is pretty much useless for real work when compared to apple's built-in terminal. Seems to not correctly support PS1s, at least in the case of zsh. I'd be surprised by anyone that would actually pay $10 for this, seems like $1 would be a better price point for a toy app.
How many actual toys (that cost like $1 to produce) cost lots more than $10, and you wouldn't think twice about buying them? How much is a Barbie Doll nowadays? Bitching about $10 reminds me of this Oatmeal strip: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps
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You just used "real work" in the same sentence as "osx built in terminal"? Has Apple made a lot of fixes to terminal recently?
To elaborate on this: iTerm2 is much better than Terminal.app, and free. It seems to be the default thing that everybody recommends, and for good reason. http://www.iterm2.com/
It might just be my usage pattern, which is basically tmux. I was even briefly excited about the so called tmux integration of iTerm2, but it actually made a great tool worthless.
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You just used "real work" in the same sentence as "osx built in terminal"? Has Apple made a lot of fixes to terminal recently?
To elaborate on this: iTerm2 is much better than Terminal.app, and free. It seems to be the default thing that everybody recommends, and for good reason. http://www.iterm2.com/
tl;dr: The xscreensaver package has a program that does something very like this. It's open-source, and works on both linux and OS X.
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You just used "real work" in the same sentence as "osx built in terminal"? Has Apple made a lot of fixes to terminal recently?
To elaborate on this: iTerm2 is much better than Terminal.app, and free. It seems to be the default thing that everybody recommends, and for good reason. http://www.iterm2.com/
c.f http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/01/cathode-vintage-terminal-emu... tl;dr: The xscreensaver package has a program that does something very like this. It's open-source, and works on both linux and OS X.
$10? It might be a fun trick to show off to friends, but I am sure as hell not doing any serious work in that. iTerm2 'till I die!
A fun trick? Are you kidding me? I've never spend money that fast before (I had bought it before it got in the App Store). Cathode is awesome, especially if, like me, you have ever worked in such an environment (VT100 etc). I even dropped iTerm 2 and use Cathode all day long. Something about the blast-from-the-past feel makes me more productive and feel like an ol' hacker. Only wish it had tabs.
Whatever floats your boat, I guess...