glterminal

Oh, now, this is cool. There’s been a thread over at arstechnica asking for a full-screen terminal app for Mac OS X, and the guys at that forum unearthed the uber-geeky terminal app “GLTerminal”. GLTerminal emulates a 1970′s terminal monitor, complete with flaws in brightness, warped display curvature, and flicker. It even simulates baud rate lag. And! for extra verisimilitude, the character colors can be green or amber.
UPDATE: Kim Slawson has graciously updated the OpenGL character bitmap and Finder icon for Mac OS X 10.5.
Download his updated version here, but make sure to visit his how-to page because the instructions for getting it working have changed a bit (also, he’s got a great blog!). It would still be the Best of All Possible Worlds if original author James McCombe could be convinced to throw the source code on a server somewhere, but that’s his call.
~jeff
[...] to the roots of terminal. Es handelt sich um glterminal ein kleines Programm, was uns kurz in die Vergangenheit katapultiert. Verzerrung, langsame [...]
[...] ldopa.net » archive » glterminal A terminal emulator for OSX that will accurate ape an old school 1970s monitor. I have been after something like this for as long as I’ve had a mac. (tags: OSX terminal retro) ← Links For Wednesday 19th March 2008 [...]
It figures I’d be over two years behind in discovering this fantastic application.
All I can say now is: thanks a million. I haven’t felt this nostalgic since I first discovered MAME.
P.S. Wow, was 1200 baud really that slow? I remember when it was the height of technology, lol
Great ! Does it simulate also the sound of the old keyboard with big keys and the smell of former computer equipment ? and the flickering ?
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[...] comes as part of gnome can be made full-screen without much hassle, and for mac os x, there’s glterminal, which will do quite a realistic emulation of a knackered old green-screen (if you don’t mind [...]
[...] comes as part of gnome can be made full-screen without much hassle, and for mac os x, there’s glterminal, which will do quite a realistic emulation of a knackered old green-screen (if you don’t mind [...]
February 2006 GLTerminal emulates a 1970?s terminal monitor,
THANX ADMIN.