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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

http://www.fsf.org/ funnt

evil bob, your American use of the word freedom is a freedom where everyone else suffers because of you, your freedom is the freedom to take, close, and abuse. The FSF freedom is for the community, for everyone, not just you in your company. FSF Freedom means we play by the same rules, we trade alike and we, the community, always have freedom to what we will to derivatives of property “gifted” to the community.

There isn’t a lot of point to your pro-BSD/LGPL post other than one side arguing freedom of the individual is more important freedom of community. Which in turn is a very American arguement to get into.

The fact that you use the word VIRAL to describe GPL code shows that you do not understand how the GPL works. You choose to make derivatives, it doesn’t just happen by accident.
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doug humphrey

Ah, the model 40 – teletype – that was a GREAT
terminal, nice wide screen and all

how about an ann arbor ambassador? those (available
in both modes) were great, although maybe the old eyes
would not be able to read the tiny font these days!

doug
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michel

intellectual property is not toys !

if the author add the licence term with its software we would know if a modification AND REDISTRIBUTION is authorized !

the author seems to be a kind person and he’s not annoyed by that.

about GPL, no one is forced to do a derivative works of a gpl works
is it so fair to allow people to take works from nice people and change it in a closed products with LESS freedom to users ?

noone can force good and nice developpers to put their works under microsoft eula, gpl, apple licence, apl 2, Bsd, mit or whatever terms you imagine the “stallman” want. it’s a free(dom) country.

about community or zealot : THANKS people distributing THEIR works in terms authorizing YOU to modify, to hack, to REDISTRIBUTE software to ANYONE. Do you imagine how MUCH useful it is ?

thanks them , praises them, be happy, use the good softwares , proprietary ones, free ones, freedom ones, all good softwares and do not be mean.
scumbaggery

Part of me wants to go to the local Apple store, load this up fullscreen on all the shiny new Power Macs and iMacs, and watch all the dirty hipsters go apeshit.
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http://udontknowme.org Zaphod

This is beautiful.. It brought back good memories and gave me warm fuzzies.. Thats a bit scary. Something about the distortion and the flicker. Brings back the days of excited wonder – when these devices were new (to us) and amazing. And the thought that maybe, someday – I could learn to program one of them, and to make them do something !

Thanks.
Christopher

LMAO, well done! ;-)
angelday true

Guys, this is awesome! Author for PREZIDENT!!
http://watchstore.9cy.com dog

Great site, thanks dudes
Alexander De Large

Please let me send you money.
http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

Hey! Assheads!

No one here at LDopa wrote this. We just thought it was funny. Take your TEH GPEL IS TEH GRAET and your OPAN SORES SOFTWEAR SI FRO NERDS arguments somewhere else.

This site serves some very important functions: making fun of Microsoft, Republicans, and Your Mom. Everything else is incidental. So if you don’t have something to say that’s not a) funny or b) something I can’t read at every other fucking weblog in the world, don’t say it. Alternately, say it, then effectively make fun of me for yelling at you about it.

Thank you,

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Joachim

Aloha!

Has anybody got it to work on an iBook G4 w. MacOS 10.4?

I only get a white screen.
http://ldopa.net Jeff

Jochim, go to the prefs and select “Classic Terminal”.

Josh, your comment seems kind of uncharacteristically bitchy. Maybe you and I need to relax and play “Burnout 3″ on Playstation 2 for another seven hours.

~jeff
agazso

Joachim: use classic terminal plugin in renderer preferences.
BTW it doesn’t save the preferences.
http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

I’m always uncharacteristically bitchy!

(semantically analyze that, bitch!)

I want to go for a hike in the woods. I’ve been cooped up inside with a cold for a week, and the cold’s breaking down, and it’s sunny outside. Wanna go?

I’ll be in Newport celebrating my Gramma’s 95th birthday. It should be a really rockin’ party. Bjørk’s said she might be there and Goldy’s gonna be spinning. I have it on good authority that Bowie and Eno have both purchased tickets and that Christo wrapped all our presents. Also, we’re playing Twister.
Chris

This would be a great little extra to toss into the terminal app options in the next OSX release. Hopefully they’d use this guy’s code rather than rewriting it and claiming it as something new (::cough cough:: Konfabulator, anyone?)
easy

If he chooses not to release the software it’s his right to do so. Buut the only reason I could see is that he thinks that he may make some money out of it. And that’s crazy.

Anyway somebody may rewrite it. It’s not THAT difficult.

I could do it in a bit of spare time.
Someone

Hopefully they’d use this guy’s code rather than rewriting it and claiming it as something new

This Guy is currently working at Apple.
software sux

Sometimes people don’t release their software because its an embarrassing mess.

Also, ADM3A 4EVER.
kaltar

Best App EVER!
http://www.fsf.org/ funnt

For those with free X distros you can get a similar effect (less features) with xscreensaver e.g.:

/usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -fast -text -program sh
http://notyet,butalmost SomeGuy

You really need to set the baud rate to 1200 or 300 to get a real feel for the goodness. Ahh, DecWriters, where the Console always spools (until you have to turn the paper over).
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http://www.poundcommapound.com/blog/ poundcommapound

I like how funnt keeps saying “endowed”.
Jazzman

I’ve been looking for something like this app for ages. Unfortunately it’s too slow to be usable on my G3 iBook. Any chance of performance improvements in the near future?
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http://www.doggo.org doggo

Okay… THIS JUST ROCKS! I’ve used “dumb” terminals for my job, and my first computer… was a 286 with a green monochrome monitor (oh yeah! with a .. Hercules graphics card! w0oT|) Now, my term looks a lot more like I wish my web page looked. Hmm, screenshots are in order.

Thanks guys, for pulling this thing out of obscurity for us nostalgic old bastards.

“Daisy [a victim of Sleeping Sickness] went to sleep at 15 and woke up many years later. she, being perfectly sensible, decided she ought to die, since she had literally slept away her entire productive life. the medical profession had, in her absence, decided that all life must be preserved, regardless of worth to its owner, and prevented her from performing the only noble act she was capable of.

That Oliver Sacks has been portrayed by Robin Williams in a saccharine mass-market tearjerker movie in no way invalidates his life’s work: documenting the entertaining behavior of people with severe brain anomalies.”

L Dopa fix me, alright?
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Petri Sirkkala

Absolutely a ‘must have’ terminal application!

It really reminds you that you need another 20 years to really appreciate what you now have!

Thank you a lot!

I really wish I could somehow give the same fresh feeling to the author of this!

-Pete
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we need more fullscreen apps… I hate the OSX menubar and dock.
Hans

Ultimate thing to do with it:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
watch star wars!
sit back, get you popcorn and enjoy!
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Tuxie

Damn cool! I’ll have to install Frotz and play Zork now. :)
http://www.logihelgu.com Logi Helgu

This it one of the coolest things…now we just need more console apps to run :)
http://joshua.swingpad.com/ Joshua

Doggo… What? We really need some connecting sentences there.
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I agree with you the way you view the issue. I remember Jack London once said everything positive has a negative side; everything negative has positive side. It is also interesting to see different viewpoints & learn useful things in the discussion.
http://ldopa.net Jeff

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