I use this a couple of times a year when I crank up my Pandas version of TOPS-20 (http://panda.trailing-edge.com/). Now that VMS is ported to x86 I may use it more!
Cool Retro Terminal
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#52I always loved over-the-top, somewhat impractical visual effects like this. Reminds me of growing up playing with Compiz Fusion. For a retro Android game I maintain, I use the term "Gratuitous Eye Straining Effects" in the settings page. It needs to be toggleable, because I can only tolerate it for a short period. My naming was inspired by k9mail's settings called "Gaudy visual effects". May as well have some fun wit…
But Compiz Fusion wasn’t all about impractical visual effects: wobbly windows was seriously useful, and rather popular, perhaps the one thing that people would leave enabled after playing with all the fun ridiculous stuff for a bit.
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#53That's how I tried to make my personal website look! I actually asked GPT3 to write the code for me. I'm not a SWE so I'm not sure how well it did, but it works! http://h4x.club
@neom Your site looked great even before the recent css/styling from @tiborsaas , and now looks even better! Kudos! (I'm such a fan of the look-and-feel from things like Cool Retro terminal, etc.)
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#54Too bad I have an older version of Qt on my system.
Why is software deployment so hard these days, despite all the effort that is poured into package managers?
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#55I always loved over-the-top, somewhat impractical visual effects like this. Reminds me of growing up playing with Compiz Fusion. For a retro Android game I maintain, I use the term "Gratuitous Eye Straining Effects" in the settings page. It needs to be toggleable, because I can only tolerate it for a short period. My naming was inspired by k9mail's settings called "Gaudy visual effects". May as well have some fun wit…
But Compiz Fusion wasn’t all about impractical visual effects: wobbly windows was seriously useful, and rather popular, perhaps the one thing that people would leave enabled after playing with all the fun ridiculous stuff for a bit.
Or you could be a nerd of the 1990s and be permanently stuck on the Rotating Cube effect.
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#56When I made a terminal based game for a gamejam Cool Retro Terminal served as quick and easy way to make the final demonstration look nicer.
Pretty sure I saw someone do this in the recent Lisp Game Jam, too.
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#57Someone at VoidLinux added this. Curious how many other distros package this.
xbps-query -Rs retro
[-] cool-retro-term-1.1.1_1 Good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
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#58Now, if this thing supported sixels, it would be a great tool for giving eye-catching interactive presentations.
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#59Cool Retro Term is my daily driver. Though I do turn off the screen curvature (look, terminals were straight on my CRT too, they were windows there) and the burn in (just a little too excessive for me, though I haven't tried turning it most of the way down). Tools that are a joy to use are fun as well as functional.
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#60I 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 use it as my daily driver. I turn a lot of the effects down (I think the defaults are extreme) and it just looks like an old terminal emulator on a CRT used to. Feels nice.