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Cool-retro-term
- thristian 12y agoIt's surprising to me how much narrower 40 columns is now than it was when I had a real Apple II.
- jmckib 12y agoThis looks awesome, I just wish it could go full screen on my mac. You can download the OSX dmg here, I almost missed it since it's at the very bottom of the instructions: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/releases https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/releases
- ishtu 12y agoFullscreen works fine for me (OS X 10.9)
- nailer 12y agoWorks fine on Yosemite here. Looks like it has iTerm-ish keyboard bindings too. Pity it doesn't have tabs, otherwise it might be usable as a daily shell.
- dullcrisp 12y agoWhat's weird on Mac is that it seems to use Command as the Control key.
- pavel_lishin 12y agoLooks like a known issue: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/issues/203 https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/issues/203 The Command key seems to act like the control key.
- krat0sprakhar 12y agoFor the ones looking to take this further, there's Cathode[0] (Mac only) - http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
- copperx 12y agoCathode is closed source. How can we 'take it further'?
- krat0sprakhar 12y agoApologies if my wording gave you a wrong idea. What I meant was that Cathode has a good variety of themes and customization features.
- masklinn 12y agoAnd the sounds are pretty great. The "Heavy" power-on sound is… satisfying: https://soundcloud.com/biohazard-music/cathode-heavy-poweron-sound https://soundcloud.com/biohazard-music/cathode-heavy-poweron...
- cplease 12y agoCathode is objectively much better than cool-retro-term, which while cool, is just not nearly as good. I use both. It was well worth my $5 to support the author of this project. Cathode was also first and cool-retro-term is at least arguably a clone. It's great that it's open-source and cross-platform, but I don't find it usable enough for actual work in Linux, whereas I use Cathode all the time on OS X.
- keslag 12y agoI used an amber CRT for 17 years. What this is missing is the mottled browning and yellowing from all the cigarette smoke on the beige plastic case. Now what you really need to be retro is a TTY printer. I used to get my work orders through one. No screen, just a seemingly infinite roll of dot matrix paper and a keyboard.
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- VLM 12y agoHas anyone tried a "open plan office" term yet? So work at home people, and people in sane environments, can experience the huge performance boost of an open plan office. So just vanilla unicode-rvxt or whatever you use, with some really special additions... 1) ghostly reflections of people constantly walking behind you and sometimes glancing at your screen as they walk by in the background as a transparency layer. 2) If you're a glossy screen in a brightly lit office you get torturous reflections causing eyestrain, make sure to include that. If you can't see what you're doing, you should just work harder. 3) A continuous mix of noise plays in the background at random levels, probably stolen from youtube type videos. So dramatic arguments, sports gossip, people asking each other questions to google for them, ringtones and other noisy beepy stuff, all mixed together continuously. If you're distracted, its your fault for being distracted. Might have to script the background activities although an option to just mash up purely random youtube traffic would be funny. To get people to use it, you could create kind of a directed, scripted story that plays out. This lowers the technological bar to merely being a video player with high transparency and a probably very large video file. I have no idea if this is a genius idea or mere parody. Probably a work of performance art if done well. I am aware there are lots of sites that play background audio such as a coffee house or whatever. I'm looking for the open plan office experience, specifically.
- wyclif 12y agoAs someone who both comes from an environment with epic levels of sarcasm and works remote, I appreciated this comment.
- agumonkey 12y agoSkeumorphism is trendy again. If it wasn't for watts, I'd get a big CRT back, analog pixels sounds better[1]. Or maybe a Grid Compass http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/54135-grid-compass-1101-and-1139 http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/54135-grid-compass-1... ;) [1] (c) Monster
- youonlyliveonce 12y agoThis was in the frontpage just a few months ago. Edit: On a sidenote, upvote for Skeumorphism !
- normloman 12y agoI'm getting sick of flat design. But let's not go back to skeumorphism. A few years ago, when fake wood textures were all the rage, I remember being so frustrated at some of the interfaces. Lots of awkward metaphors (Oh, I'm supposed to click the inkwell to write a new document?) and poor discoverability (That's a button? I thought it was part of the background!).
- normloman 12y agoNot sure what this is supposed to be. It's obviously not meant to be functional. It doesn't look good (rather, it looks purposely bad). And no matter how close to the real thing you make it, it's not going to fool me into feeling like I'm on a CRT when I'm not. So I'm not feeling nostalgic for it either. The best nostalgic experience I got this year was booting my raspberry pi for the first time, because you can have it boot straight to command line. It brought me back to my first DOS pc, when you had to type "WIN" to run Windows.
- sergiotapia 12y agoOh god I hate these type of comments. Please if you have nothing constructive to say, don't be rude and dismiss somebodies hard work. It's infinitely easier to put someone down than it is to actually produce something.
- normloman 12y agoWho is that thin skinned? If you work hard on something, people inevitably shit on it. It's human nature. And someone as talented as this creator is probably used to it by now. Besides, limiting conversation to just constructive criticism limits the scope of HN. This isn't a support group. It's a discussion forum. We should be free to criticize not only the implementation of a program, but the need to build it in the first place.
- yen223 12y agoWhat do you hope to achieve with your comment?
- pavel_lishin 12y ago> If you work hard on something, people inevitably shit on it. It's human nature. And someone as talented as this creator is probably used to it by now. This compliment is delivered like an engagement ring in a dog turd.
- mbrock 12y agoI'm a certified ridiculous person, but sometimes I really enjoy using bash and Emacs in a full-screen crazy terminal simulator. And I often feel like computers have enough graphics power to look really cool but that they often look really plain instead.
- boobsbr 12y agoNow, just set it up to use the VT 220 font, and we're done. http://christfollower.me/misc/glasstty/index.html http://christfollower.me/misc/glasstty/index.html
- moomin 12y agoHow about actually supporting coloured text, and get new school eye candy with your old school eye candy? :)
- DanielKehoe 12y agoThis is awesome nostalgia, but tell me, for those who have never seen a CRT display, does it have any meaning to you? Seeing this, I wonder if the world has forgotten what a computer is. Now we've got devices, for example phones, and the computer (and the Internet) is right at the surface of the device. When we used CRT displays, we knew our display was just a repurposed television screen that communicated with a separate and discreet computer, which was another (and different) kind of machine. Same with modems. When they screeched and howled, the duration of noise and the "seeking" nature of the sounds was a clear indicator that we were connecting to other devices at a distance, devices that were not always available, over connections that were tenuous. Now everything is immediate and ubiquitous. The computer has been subsumed into the terminal itself. And what was distant is at our fingertips.
- TheOtherHobbes 12y agoDon't worry. Twenty five years from now some AI will code up a HN emulator and make it look like a old-fashioned flat panel monitor floating in a small window in 3D space, instead of taking up the entire visual field like a proper computing device.
- herval 12y agoMost of the time, my 3G is as immediate and ubiquitous as my modem connection 15 years ago - even in big centers like NY. Computers are still "mysterious machines" for a lot of people. I still stumble upon startup founders, from time to time, that consider computers "something I try to use" (granted, not tech cofounders). Yes, things evolved, but I don't think we got to the point where computers are just like light bulbs and connectivity is just like tap water yet... In most places, for most people, at least.
- to3m 12y agoI suspect only people who've never used a CRT would use this sort of thing ;) I used CRTs for years (naturally... I'm in my late 30s) and, without fail, they sucked. If they weren't long-persistence, they were flickery; if they were, they were smeary, even by the standards of ancient mono laptops. If they were flat-screened, focus was inconsistent. Large ones were expensive (and by "large" I mean "19 inch"), and you lost some screen area from the bezel. If you found one that didn't have any of these problems, it was probably enormously expensive. But even your enormously expensive one wouldn't look quite pin-sharp at 1600x1200. (Unless it was truly enormously expensive, and was a 22+ inches diagonal.) And whatever you did, they took up a huge amount of space, used a vast amount of electricity, and emitted a lot of radiation (though nobody ever seemed to be quite clear on whether this was actually bad for you). And what nobody seems to remember is how rather unreliable they are. Failure rate for the LCDs I've owned: 0%. For the CRTs? 100%. None made it past six years. If you like them for games, great. Enjoy your youthful ability to detect those extra 10ms of latency while you still have it, that's what I say! But for a terminal? You're nuts.
- diltonm 12y agoI gotta say this is a pretty cool app. A lot of the UI seems to be declarative. Very nice, considering donating.
- habosa 12y agoSmall details: it seems from the screenshots that the screen 'glows' so that the bezel of the display has a tint of the most prominent color on screen. That's a great touch that makes it look more real than a terminal within a static frame.
- habosa 12y agoSmall details: it seems from the screenshots that the screen 'glows' so that the bezel of the display has a tint of the most prominent color on screen. That's a great touch that makes it look more real than a terminal within a static frame.
- sauere 12y agoThe amount of reposts in the last few months is getting stupid.
- sctb 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8399461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8399461