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If someone wants an app idea (which might now be possible since Windows Terminal is open source & DirectX based)... I've been looking for a Windows replacement
by SyneRyder 7y ago
If someone wants an app idea (which might now be possible since Windows Terminal is open source & DirectX based)...
I've been looking for a Windows replacement to Cathode [1], a macOS app that makes the terminal look like a CRT monitor. Not just the colour scheme & font, but with screen jitter, image persistence & glow, static, scanlines and even sound effects sampled from old computers. For the times I have to use a terminal, it really makes me smile & enjoy the work.
Linux has Cool Retro Term which is similar, and there have been efforts to port that to Windows that have failed. I could probably run Cool Retro Term under WSL2, but Windows deserves something native.
It seems more likely that an indie developer might be able to fork Terminal & create their own than Microsoft building this in. (As much as I like the idea of Windows having a Fruity IIe terminal theme built-in.)
Cathode charges $5 which is much too cheap - I'd pay $20 easily (maybe more) for something that brightens up my work day the way Cathode does.
[1] http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/