glterminal

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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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  1. Kramer auto Pingback[...] Для любителей поностальгировать появился замечательный терминал для Mac OS X — GLTerminal. [...]

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  3. Kramer auto Pingback[...] auch die Baudraten-Verzögerung dieser Zeit emuliert.  Das sieht so cool aus….   Have a look at GL Terminal   glterminal ist so coooool Donnerstag, 9. November 2006   Weiter > [...]

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  5. Kramer auto Pingback[...] GLTerminal (not to be confused with GLTerm) simulates an old green, amber, or white CRT terminal complete with scan lines, screen curvature, and baud rate emulation (if wanted). [...]

  6. Kramer auto Pingback[...] now those days can be yours, at least if you’re on a Mac. From Boing Boing comes news of GLTerminal, an OSX app that simulates the joy of typing to a glass Teletype, as some of us called them back in [...]

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  9. Kramer auto Pingback[...] Here’s a great bit of fun. A terminal for your OS X box that emulates an old ansi terminal, with green phospher and all (sure, you can make it amber if you want, but who does that?) Flicker and CRT tube pincushioning included. Now to add some phospher burn… then it’s just like the good old days. Oh, did I mention it will emulate an old modems lag as well? Set it to 2400 and have a flashback of logging on to your friends BBS. Get it while it’s hot at the link below. The author promises to release it. I want this for Linux… I have about 40 xterms that I’m going to replace with one of these.ldopa.net » archive » glterminal [...]

  10. Kramer auto Pingback[...] folks, is GLTerminal. It emulates the curvature of ye olde green and amber CRT tubes; what you can’t see in the [...]

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  15. Kramer auto Pingback[...] baud rate lag. And! for extra verisimilitude, the character colors can be green or amber."Overview at ldopa.netGLTerminal thread at Ars [...]

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  24. Oldtimer says:

    Does anyone how to get the classic view working in OSX 10.5 / Leopard? It displays fine in normal mode, but the classic view is garbled. Probably a font translation problem?

    Thanks!!

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  27. Steve says:

    Aiee! My favourite app ever, and the text is garbled on Leopard with the classic emulator. Have been trying all sorts of tricks with no success. If anybody ever figures this out, please let us know!

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  31. Kramer auto Pingback[...] out GLTerminal to get an impression of this little [...]

  32. Kramer auto Pingback[...] Die Kommandozeilen können auch grün auf schwarz sein :-) Flimmernd und verzerrt… Für das wirklich echte Retro-Feeling: http://ldopa.net/2006/01/14/glterminal/ [...]

  33. oldtimer says:

    Just a quick note to let everyone know that glterminal HAS been unofficially updated for Leopard. The update fixes the garbled text issue and a few other quirks – not all – but most.

    Important thing is: it works again! W00t!

    Here is the link:

    http://riffraff.livejournal.com/356503.html

    Alternatively, search google for “glterminal leopard”.

  34. Kramer auto Pingback[...] might like GLTerminal (google around for other builds). If it doesn’t display, go into Session->Preferences and pick [...]

  35. Kramer auto Pingback[...] search for “full-screen terminal” “mac os x” turns up a few ways you could use emacs fullscreen. GLTerminal seems like the most entertaining.(Reply to [...]

  36. Kramer auto Pingback[...] neitt betra en Terminal, nema hugsanlega GLTerminal. a er reyndar meira sniugt en fnt. http://ldopa.net/2006/01/14/glterminal/ Skrti me essi terminalforrit, a er augljst a Terminal gti veri betra, og a hafa alveg [...]