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
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[...] This Mac application really takes me back to when tubes were hot technology. Back in the day, when I was learning programming in college, I had the patience-building experience of programming on a hard copy terminal (the DecWriter) for the first year or so. Round about the beginning of my second year, they began to introduce VT-52 and VT-100 terminals with manual dialup acoustic couplers at a blazing 300 baud. There was one terminal that ran at 1200 baud that people would literally fight over (or come in when the lab opened and stay on it all day). [...]
[...] Aside: Does an app like the Mac’s GLTerminal (originally written by James A. McCombe and some how leaked/escaped) exist for Windows? Does Chris Sells want to write this in Avalon? This would be a rocking sweet Avalon application that I’d happily download the WinFX library for. It could sweep the net. ;) [...]
I recently spent a few days behind a real one, and this looks even better!
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I like to think of myself as a smart girl, but there are a ton who are smarter than me. At least I’m not like Dubbya who has called himself “the Decider”. HAHA – That’s so funny!
[...] Found on digg, this old fashioned terminal emulator is retro and remains practical at the same time! Recommended for any OS X users as geeky as I. read more | digg story [...]
Any older versions of this available. As in not updated for 10.4?
Gesh, would someone fix this already, or at least write a new one.
Thank you.
[...] We don’t need Writeroom. (And if you really think you do, why not go two more steps, download GLTerminal, and vi away?) [...]
Actually, WriteRoom with this look-and-feel would simply rock.
And James, looking forward to having this app sans the “second-relaunch-green-bar-bug” :)
I plan to buy a new mac and that will be really fun to run this emulator. The real world situation is since my notebook wrecked I’m sitting in the front of a terminal like this with an old CRT and it’s not a ‘cool retro feeling’ for me now but REALITY. ;)
funnt:
You need to stop idealizing the whole ‘free software’ thing (and please stop pitting it against America, for crying out loud). This is a neat little app that people are using because they like it and it needs fixing but they are unable to get ahold of the original author.
You’re talking to os x users, here. You don’t need to spit ‘open source’ propaganda at us. We use it daily. And if you want to bring nationalist bigotry into it, that’s fine – as long as I can propose that Romania get it’s internet privileges taken away, as I have yet to see a representative of your (probably) fine country behave rationally online.
[...] GLTerminal emulates a 1970 â??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.read more | digg story [...]
[...] ich habe früher schon an terminals gesessen … komische monitore beobachtet … daran gearbeitet, es war eine zeit in der nerds noch nerds waren und ich ein kleiner wannebe … jetzt habe ich was gefunden was mir genau dieses gefühl auf meinem mac wiederbringt … glterminal … lässt mein herz höher schlagen, von geeks für geeks … sogar das flimmern der alten röhren lässt sich einstellen … die krümmung und die helligkeit … einfach nur gut und jedem zu empfehlen der ab und an mal mit terminals arbeitet und freunde und bekannte schocken will, gerade weil es eines der wenigen fullscreen terminals für den mac ist, die ich bisher gesehen habe … danke für den hinweis und viel spaß allen geeks damit! [...]
[...] this terminal replacement for mac makes me really want to learn how to do more terminal crap now. i’ve been watching ascii star wars (which is great, considering i’ve somehow never seen the start wars movies ->telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl) and i’m getting back into feudal realms. [...]
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Someone needs to build a add-on to iTerm or build a good version of this app. Wasn’t the author going to release the code for this?
interesting. Heiko from Germany
[...] und ich habe dafür ein tolles Programm gefunden. Es heißt GL-Terminal und man kann es hier [...]
Any chance of a universal bin ary?
My friend’s wife is an emergency room nurse
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