last I checked it was smaller than 80x24 so although it was 'retro' looking, it wasn't really very compatible with much if you go into full-screen mode (e.g. vi, top, etc)
Tried it for what it's worth some time ago. Pretty novel and cool looking. Ended up removing it again; I found it too novel even after fiddling with settings.
I meant they did it a decade or so before NOW -- not a decade or so before this project, which I knew started in reaction to Cathode, but didn't know when exactly.
yes, anybody who says it's a copycat obviously bases it solely on the idea of creating "a vintage-feeling terminal", and not to specific implementation details that were copied verbatim.
I was thinking the exact same thing as I have been porting some old terminal based games to the browser and having a decent looking terminal interface would really help with the immersion.
I use 'tritty' (for slow terminal line) in combination with the directly-extracted font from the vt220 (for looks) for much the same effect in a more portable way. It doesn't emulate the CRT artifacts, but it's generally pretty good to emulate a 'real terminal' feeling.
The tritty timing was a bit off on OpenBSD last I tried (IIRC something about the sleep granularity being to large and so the emulation always going too slow), but on Linux & MacOS it works great.
I just use a separate terminal config/start script and fire it up in 80x24 for small-scale admin-type tasks or when I feel like low level focus, and a regular setup for everything else..
"Uncle Bob" Martin also used it in his videos ((https://cleancoders.com/). While watching the video, I recognized the Cool Retro on some of his segments where he was showing lines of code. By the way, his videos are really quirky with lots of scenes, and highly recommended, despite not being free.
Sometimes, I get an urge to buy used VT terminals on Ebay, but then stop myself from making such mistakes by watching htop running on Retro Cool, and appease my nostalgia.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 80.2 ms ] threadI was thinking of switching to primary Linux desktop soon, so I'll be sure to install this.
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
It’s available for Mac even though the blog post doesn’t mention it.
The mac version was using a lot of CPU cycles, so I stopped using it, but it's worth checking.
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/
Is this the JWZ of "no you have two problems" regex quote? What does he have against HN?
He's... not a fan of Y Combinator: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/02/noted-fascist-collaborator-...
(and again, you'll need to copy/paste that link rather than clicking on it)
And I think that you'll find that TeleVideo et al. actually did it first, three (proper) decades before either of those. (-:
I meant they did it a decade or so before NOW -- not a decade or so before this project, which I knew started in reaction to Cathode, but didn't know when exactly.
> a decade or more before
should probably read
> a decade or more ago
See, I can do sarcasm too
1: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121322/32070717-16...
https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle
http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/
The tritty timing was a bit off on OpenBSD last I tried (IIRC something about the sleep granularity being to large and so the emulation always going too slow), but on Linux & MacOS it works great.
I just use a separate terminal config/start script and fire it up in 80x24 for small-scale admin-type tasks or when I feel like low level focus, and a regular setup for everything else..
Sometimes, I get an urge to buy used VT terminals on Ebay, but then stop myself from making such mistakes by watching htop running on Retro Cool, and appease my nostalgia.