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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

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Mark

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
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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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