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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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Post by timeforcomputer »

com2kid wrote: post #13

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…

I love it because I have glare/doubling around words. Adding some visual noise can mask my own eye problems, and adding some visual effects with the glowbar and jittering if I feel like it, can really make it easier to focus for some reason.

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Post by bitwize »

weinzierl wrote: post #24
dylan604 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

depends on how the brightness/contrast was set on the tube. if someone came in to a screen that was off and did not allow it enough time to warm up, it was common to see people adjust these knobs in the mornings. eventually, the tube would warm up, and things would just be too bright.

The single most annoying thing with these old displays was the flicker. Whenever I use one of my real old home computer era monitors it is the only thing that makes it unbearable after a while. But I'm not surprised they don't go overboard with that in the emulators. They'd probably have to add PSE warnings if they did.

My sister tried to go through broadcast school, with great difficulty especially when she got through the video editing classes. Turns out she has photosensitive epilepsy and all the exposure to CRT monitors made her quite ill. You couldn't convince her to go back to the CRT days for all the tea in China.

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

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Post by archargelod »

Looks nice and pretty light on resources.

But it seems buggy at rendering some unicode characters, I use vertical line[0] for my indentation guides in Neovim, and they look outright hideous in cool-retro-term[1]

[0] https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+007C

[1] https://lensdump.com/i/f6qna1

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

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Post by brirec »

em-bee wrote: post #39
rbanffy wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should get a modern version. IIRC, Luxi Mono was close.

which is a historic X11 font: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxi_fonts interesting

Whoa, this sent me back. I cut my teeth on Red Hat Linux 5.2 (pre-RHEL), and I remember when they first added Bluecurve… oh jeez, this means im old, doesn’t it?

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

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Post by SoftTalker »

Aldipower wrote: post #15
com2kid wrote: post #13

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

... and the crackles and pops of a vinyl record?

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Post by lelanthran »

com2kid wrote: post #13

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…

> Also a lack of tab support really hurts it as a daily driving terminal.

For some, perhaps.

I've not needed tabbed terminals ever since vim got proper terminal support. I run shells within vim, so have them in splits, tabs, etc in a plain xterm.

Sorta like a tmux replacement, but with better editor support :-)

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

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Post by ack_complete »

poke646 wrote: post #26
pimlottc wrote: post #2

People go so overboard on this stuff, the amount of ghosting on the DOS example is insane. I don’t want to spoils anyone’s fun but that’s not really what most screens looked like back then.

It's almost like a caricature of a CRT. I can see the novelty, but hope that people aren't lead to believe monitors looked like this. I think what bothers me most is the horizontal line that slowly moves across the screen every few seconds. It's an artifact of recording a CRT on film and doesn't occur when you look at a real monitor...

It also happens with digital cameras for similar reasons, due to CCD scanning. But yeah, that doesn't happen looking directly at a CRT.

The bloom is also too blobby, because it's a gaussian blur. I ran into the same issue trying to implement a similar effect. The bloom shape needs to sharper to look realistic -- which also means unfortunately a non-separable blur.

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Post by redwall_hp »

technothrasher wrote: post #20

Not quite this extreme, but I usually use the old Sun console font in my terminal windows, because I'm an old fart and it makes me happy. Someone at work just the other day looked at my screen and said, "What the heck is wrong with your terminal window???"

I set my terminal windows and such to Monaco, because it was the default Apple monospace font from 1984 until 2009.
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