glterminal
January 14th, 2006
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
un programma per OS X che emula un classico terminale degli anni 70, incluse le inesattezze nella luminosità, la curvatura e anche i lag dovuti al baud rate. Il colore dei caratteri può essere verde o ambra. Potete scaricarlo da qui
retro-experiencia sea completa, no os perdáis el modo a pantalla completa… GLTerminal es gratuito, pero no universal (aunque funciona sin problema en los Mac Intel). Vía | iUseThis Sitio oficial | Idopa.net [IMG]
framework to tack a terminal drawer onto the editing window of the ill-fated Saskatoon editor project). There’s also exterminal, which lets the terminal take over the entire display like in the old days (example). For the full retro trip, though, try glterminal, which (assuming it runs on your machine) offers adjustable flicker, distortion, and lag, just like in the old days. Except that in the old days, it wasn’t adjustable.
glterminal [IMG] — schwantz (david_isbiste…), April 14th, 2006.
1986 was the year I started college. My first computing experience was on a DEC Vax 780 via Freedom 100 terminals. Man were they crap. Now you can relive that glory on the Mac by the extremely cool terminal application GLTerminal
My eyes have just been opened to this eye-wrecking beauty – a fix for the Mac Terminal application that makes it look like an 80s-era screen (complete with green text and dodgy bulge and flicker).a Get it here
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settings to make an adjustment, click the Renderer tab and switch from Default Renderer to Classic Terminal. [IMG] Session>Preferenes>Renderer Now hit command-return and you should be in full screen retro terminal mode with all its glory. [IMG] Developer home? Download Now
(and hence, the environment in which i’m writing my nanowrimo novel): [IMG my creative writing environment] vi, full-screen, with my notes in the left pane and my novel in the right pane. full-screen terminal app courtesy of james mccombe, named GL Terminal
you a visual representation of a directory. Eh. It was useful when I was searching my old drives. DynDNS Updater, to keep my dynamic hostname associated with my Mac. Flickr Uploadr, er, uploads files to Flickr. Flip4Mac, plays windows media files. GLTerminal, a full screen terminal. Growl notifies you of events. I haven’t decided if this is a good thing or not. It adds key functionality to applications that miss it, but sometimes it’s too intrusive. I
nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, I actually enjoy it. There are times when I would rather just sharpen my chisels instead of actually building something in the workshop, and it’s good to know that at least I’m not alone. 1 This is actually GLTerminal running vi. GLTerminal slavishly emulates an old CRT terminal, flaws and all, including screen curvature, scan lines, and flicker. I imagine one of those standalone Wang word processors from the 1970s looked like this although I’ve never seen one.
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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.” ldopa.net & archive & glterminal
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“GLTerminal emulates a 1970\u2019s 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. “
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App of the year, for sure!
Hiya, nice app. Something’s wrong with the prefs though, ’cause if I save the settings as default once I’ve set the terminal to display in classic mode, all I get after a relaunch is a big black screen with some green parts on.
Yeah, make no mistake: this app is kind of broken. Prefs don’t save right. Hopefully someone will find the original author (James McCombe) and hopefully he still has the source code to update it for 10.4. The guys in that thread above have just been fixing what they can, but without the actual source code, it’s hard to make genuine improvenings to the app.
Why not making a screen saver out of this fabolous app :)
Gee, close source software stops you from modifying and improving it. Big surprise. Maybe you should re-implement it so other can improve it as well. Now you’re all going to gang up and suggest YOU LIKE THESE RESTRICTIONS.
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when a winXP version ?
funnt, it remains to be seen whether this is closed source software. Someone has to contact the author and find out whether he’ll release the source. This is merely a case of developers not actually *possessing* the source, which has nothing to do with open v. closed source issues.
Think before you type. It makes the words that come out much more sensible.
> when a winXP version ?
As soon as you’re able to install MacOSX/x86 on whitebox hardware…
Ah, it’s good to know that there is really no application so trivial or frivolous that you can’t provoke a rant from a GPL zealot by exercising your legal and moral right to not release it under Stallman’s terms.
Awesome – now I can type “4 8 15 16 23 42″ over and over every 108 minutes!
CrackWilding, excuse my english as my romanian is much better, it matters not about source availability, it matters if the software has endowed all users with the freedoms set forth by free software. You seem to misunderstand that free software is not just the source code, it is the RIGHT to change, to distribute and to distribute derivatives under the same license.
For instance by modifying the binary and distributing it without permission you are breaking copyright law, you were never given this right. If this was truly free software (or Open Source) you would be endowed with this right and you would know you had this right.
Thus this has everything to do with your so called “open v. closed source” issues.
Maybe you should read up about free software at http://www.fsf.org/
Doctor Memory, you forget that no one was given permission to modify and distribute modifications of this program. There are no licensing documenation accompanying the program, all you have is:
Note: the application GLTerminal was made by James McCombe. This copy of the bundle has a modified version of the file GLTerminal>Contents>Resources>ClassicTerminalPlugin.bundle>Contents>Resources>VT100CharacterSet.tga in order to facilitate running it under Mac OS 10.4. This is a hack, and should be treated as such. Mr. McCombe doesn’t even know this version of his program exists.
You are not granted these things, they must be given.
Actually, you have the right to use and modify any program you own, without getting special permission. See here: http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html
FREE THE ENUMCLAW 3!
Hey, why not go all the way and add an additional transparency layer that simulates phosphor burn :)
Excellent app! Been coding all morning at 9600 baud with bad flicker and all and loving ever moment of it.
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Hello. I am the original author of this terminal. It was written actually a few years ago as a side project and it got leaked somehow since I never intentionally released it, knowing that it had a lot of unfinished work.
Given the fact people seem to like this so much, I will try to get time to finish it off and put out a semi-respectable release. Keep an eye on my website over the coming months.
Best,
–James
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funnt: It’s not as if the world has not already reached the saturation point of FSF zealots.
Truly free software would not include encumbering, viral licenses like the GPL.
In this case, it’s not clear that anybody should care. Thanks to Mr. McCombe for offering to finish it up — whether or not he decides to “free” the source (whatever that means).
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FR34K1N C00L!!!
btw, can we get a FRIGGIN SCREENSAVER WITH THIS TODAY
The last time I saw this app, it was on the computers that Apple had set up for public access at the OSCON convention in Portland a few years ago. I researched it afterwards and couldn’t find any information about the original developer and, at the time, the only mention of it I could find anywhere was a blog posting from another person who had seen it at OSCON. Great to know that it’s working in 10.4.
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But can it emulate a Model 40 Teletype? ;->