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Cool Retro Terminal
- equalunique 8y agoThe green and orange terminal screen colors will fit perfectly with the themed colors of this keyset, intended for users of Cherry-compatible mechanical keyboards: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x-admgc-sa-green-screen-custom-keycap-set https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x-admgc-sa-green-scree...
- ClassyJacket 8y agoI love it. I always have my Mac terminal set to Homebrew to make me feel and look like a cool hacker - and to match my Matrix screensaver, of course. I was thinking of switching to primary Linux desktop soon, so I'll be sure to install this.
- smhenderson 8y agoAccording to another poster they have a Mac version available on their GitHub page. I checked and they do. https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
- grzm 8y ago(2017)
- WalterGR 8y agoThe project’s Github page is a better link: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term It’s available for Mac even though the blog post doesn’t mention it.
- bayindirh 8y agoThere's a similar terminal for macOS and iOS called cathode. iOS version even uses accelerometer to mimic screen wavering when moved. The mac version was using a lot of CPU cycles, so I stopped using it, but it's worth checking.
- shmerl 8y agoIt works on Linux, but some bugs aren't fixed for a long time and the project looks stalled. They also should have renamed the binary to crt.
- comradesmith 8y agoln -s, or alias it
- shmerl 8y agoThat's what I do :)
- jhanschoo 8y agoI would love for it to be able to use arbitrary fonts :) At present, it only works with fonts it was compiled with.
- cdubb 8y agoTrevor Blackwell wrote a cool "Apple2" hack for Xscreensaver that doubles as a usable terminal. https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/ https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/
- fluxsauce 8y agoFYI, there's an anti HN referral script happening that redirects to a rude image on imgur.
- wernsey 8y agoI fell for that. Is this the JWZ of "no you have two problems" regex quote? What does he have against HN?
- thristian 8y agoThe very same. Also the JWZ of "Unix port of Netscape" fame, and the XEmacs/LucidEmacs fork of GNU Emacs. He's... not a fan of Y Combinator: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/02/noted-fascist-collaborator-peter-thiel-has-managed-to-compromise-the-aclu/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/02/noted-fascist-collaborator-... (and again, you'll need to copy/paste that link rather than clicking on it)
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- cat199 8y agolast I checked it was smaller than 80x24 so although it was 'retro' looking, it wasn't really very compatible with much if you go into full-screen mode (e.g. vi, top, etc)
- tobiaswk 8y agoTried it for what it's worth some time ago. Pretty novel and cool looking. Ended up removing it again; I found it too novel even after fiddling with settings.
- coldtea 8y agoNice, but a complete rip-off of the look and feel of the Cathode app, who did it first, a decade or more before.
- JdeBP 8y agoCool Retro Term began in November 2013, Cathode in January 2011. That's rather a short "decade or more". And I think that you'll find that TeleVideo et al. actually did it first, three (proper) decades before either of those. (-:
- coldtea 8y ago>That's rather a short "decade or more". I meant they did it a decade or so before NOW -- not a decade or so before this project, which I knew started in reaction to Cathode, but didn't know when exactly.
- princekolt 8y agoEverything is a ripoff of something else.
- cat199 8y agoyes, no-one would ever come up with an idea of wanting a vintage-feeling terminal on their own, so it must be a copycat.
- croisillon 8y agois there a similar CSS/JS framework for the web?
- c12 8y agoI was thinking the exact same thing as I have been porting some old terminal based games to the browser and having a decent looking terminal interface would really help with the immersion.
- iKSv2 8y agoThis (1) gif from the github page brings out all the school days of "hacking" nostalgia 1: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121322/32070717-16708784-ba42-11e7-8572-a8fcc10d7f7d.gif https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121322/32070717-16...
- RickJWagner 8y agoI agree, it is cool. Real-looking, too.
- ArcMex 8y agoMy new favourite thing.
- cat199 8y agoI use 'tritty' (for slow terminal line) in combination with the directly-extracted font from the vt220 (for looks) for much the same effect in a more portable way. It doesn't emulate the CRT artifacts, but it's generally pretty good to emulate a 'real terminal' feeling. https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/ http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/ The tritty timing was a bit off on OpenBSD last I tried (IIRC something about the sleep granularity being to large and so the emulation always going too slow), but on Linux & MacOS it works great. I just use a separate terminal config/start script and fire it up in 80x24 for small-scale admin-type tasks or when I feel like low level focus, and a regular setup for everything else..
- otterpro 8y ago"Uncle Bob" Martin also used it in his videos ((https://cleancoders.com/ https://cleancoders.com/). While watching the video, I recognized the Cool Retro on some of his segments where he was showing lines of code. By the way, his videos are really quirky with lots of scenes, and highly recommended, despite not being free. Sometimes, I get an urge to buy used VT terminals on Ebay, but then stop myself from making such mistakes by watching htop running on Retro Cool, and appease my nostalgia.