The phosphor fading in the demo images is unrealistically slow.
It actually resembles early LCDs more than CRTs!
Undoubtedly, that must be a parameter you can tweak.
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
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have ghostty set up with this “starfield” shader: https://github.com/0xhckr/ghostty-shaders/blob/main/starfiel... I also have it set up to do adaptive theme, so in light mode the galaxy is mostly just a little noise on the black text but in dark mode it’s like I’m piloting a space ship. Highly recommend. I also documented a few other shaders on my blog here: https://catskull.net/fun-with-ghostty-shaders.html Edit:…
If only the “just snow” one would have had the snow floating down (instead of, inexplicably, up)!
Simply rotate your monitor. /j
Re: Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
#83if this got sixel support it would be just perfect! I would use it for everything
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#84People 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.
> "I don’t want to spoils anyone’s fun but that’s not really what most screens looked like back then."
I don't really see the problem with what's written on the tin here; it's called retro-term and not vintage- or classic-term, after all (I didn't read the project's webpage). In other words: It's correctly advertised as something new that's just fashioned on something from yesteryear. So you can really go overboard with technically inaccurate, kitschy glitchshit that's so popular with crowd. Of course, historically challenged people will fall into the trappings of a romantically distorted past they never were a part of. As they always did and always will. But that's just life.
Re: Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
#852023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36798774 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734137 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17413911 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9093545 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8399461
I’m so glad this was reposted as I haven’t seen it before and I love it!
Re: Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have ghostty set up with this “starfield” shader: https://github.com/0xhckr/ghostty-shaders/blob/main/starfiel... I also have it set up to do adaptive theme, so in light mode the galaxy is mostly just a little noise on the black text but in dark mode it’s like I’m piloting a space ship. Highly recommend. I also documented a few other shaders on my blog here: https://catskull.net/fun-with-ghostty-shaders.html Edit:…
If only the “just snow” one would have had the snow floating down (instead of, inexplicably, up)!
The shader is pretty small, I bet a little fiddling with changing minuses to plus signs would fix that right up (or down)!
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#87I 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 have ghostty set up with this “starfield” shader: https://github.com/0xhckr/ghostty-shaders/blob/main/starfiel... I also have it set up to do adaptive theme, so in light mode the galaxy is mostly just a little noise on the black text but in dark mode it’s like I’m piloting a space ship. Highly recommend. I also documented a few other shaders on my blog here: https://catskull.net/fun-with-ghostty-shaders.html Edit:…
Thanks for reminding me that ghostty supports shaders! Now to find a good one with scanlines…
Re: Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
#88See also “Phosphor”¹, a screen saver, part of XScreenSaver², but also usable as a terminal:
/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/phosphor -scale 2 -delay 0 -program $SHELL
2. https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/>
Re: Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
#89I'd kind of want a terminal that can be used for everything, including browsing, image display, playing videos and so forth. KDE konsole is good but I don't see any logical reason why I need to simulate 1980s terminals in 2025. Right now I use KDE konsole to either display something on the terminal or start some other program (such as gimp etc...) but I'd like the interface to actually be the terminal in itself, as-i…
Plan9 “terminals” were like that. Create a window, and by default the text shell runs in it. If you have vdir installed, and you run that in the same window, you get a semi-graphical file browser. Exit that and then run games/doom and now doom is running in the same window. Exit that and “cpu” into another machine and run riostart and now that same window that did all the other things now is running a window manager…
See also the MGR Window System: https://hack.org/~mc/mgr/>
Re: Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs
#90People 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.
Most screens, no. But that one half-dead trash-picked screen that stands out in your memory as emblematic of that time in your life when you were building computers with your own two hands? Certainly.